Clearing Bindweed

Sunday morning visit to the allotment to see how much bindweed and and other weeds I can remove from the Raspberry and Asparagus bed and add to the pile in the car park that is supposed to be cleared this coming week.

The Bindweed this year has been crazy and it has crisscrossed so much around the beds and across the paths such that its a trip hazard just trying to walk down the paths.

The good thing is that because of the weed membrane under the woodchip its on the surface but also in the woodchip, and once you get an end you can pull it out of the woodchip really easily.

View from the Plot 1 Greenhouse looking at the Asparagus Bed next to the Raspberry Beds and the potting shed door.

View of the Raspberries over the Square Foot Garden Raised Beds, There is no Bindweed connecting each row of Raspberries anymore, But I didn't have time to clear the top of the row on the left.

View up the plot of the Raspberry beds that have been reduced in height and the bindweed removed from the top of the first three beds. I didn't have time to get rid of the bindweed on the early summer raspberries.

View from the pebble pool up the plot towards Plot 1A and finally I can now walk around the the outside of the Raspberries as the paths are no longer a mass of bindweed and leaning Raspberry canes. The framework to hold in the raspberries needs modifying so the post are on the inside of the beds so there is room to get a wheelbarrow down between each variety of Raspberry and easier for harvesting next year.

View from the Greenhouse Climbing Frame entrance of the Rhubarb and Raspberry beds and paths.

Paths need bindweed removing, then scraping up and adding to one of the new Daleks, and replacing with fresh woodchip.