Couch grass - getting a bit demoralised!

[Palustris]

No mares tail ,no bindweed of either persuasion and seen enough couch grass to recognise it.
We have been composting couch (and other nasties) for more years than I care to think about. Here we have a 'non-compost heap on to which goes every thing you are not supposed to put on the real compost heap. I have just used the last one (5 years old and beautiful) as a top dressing on the part of the garden we jokingly call the New
Forest. The next pile is already 6 by 6 by 4 feet.It will be ready for use on my retirement.

[Palustris]

[Robert_Brenchley]

Somebody before you has probably dug the couch roots in then while trying to cultivate; it's easily done when there's a mass of them.

[Palustris]

Just finished digging that bit, say a metre wide by about 4? Taken out a green wheelie bin full of just couch roots, and that from a border which has been weeded both by hand and chemically for the last 8 years. It grows in from the 'lawn' along side, under the lawn edging which is about 9 inches deep. One of these days I will concrete over the whole place and grow everything in big pots stood on it.

[spacehopper]

I bet you it would get through the concrete!!  ;)

[amphibian]

I bet you it would get through the concrete!!  ;)

Or the dreaded knotweed would spring up from somewhere.

[louise stella]

I hate the flipping stuff!  It has even kept me awake at night!  I have a huge pile of it contained by 4 pallets, covered up to exclude light - and have just bagged up 12 rubble sacks of it and put that on top of it!!! Now I intend to forget it for a couple of years whilst it slowly decays!

I will win the battle! I will win the battle!  (if I say that often enough it might work)

I am going to grow spuds to help keep it at bay in the cleared beds and am going to grow squashes/corn/courgettes throught card and muck mulches on the bits I haven't had time to clear quite so well (mainly because my back hurts and I am sick of digging and have nowhere else to put all the d**n roots!).

So the question is - who's gonna give up first ? me or the couch?

My money is on the couch losing ........

Louise