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GREEN MANURE
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We have a property in France with an enormous wild garden full of weeds which we cannot get rid of. We have been advised to try Green Manure but don't dig it in, just keep it mowed every visit and this should keep a lot of the weeds down - is this correct please?
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Our goats used to graze it at one time. ( They preferred nettles, brambles, holly, hazel to grass.)
When the goats died we got a sit on mower and cut it regularly ...pretending it was grass!
Over a few years it actually turned into a passable lawn, admittedly with many weeds in.
A friend thought that we had paid to turf it and couldn't believe that we had achieved it by simply mowing it.
We always removed the grass clippings which would contain all the weed seeds.
Now times have changed.
Lawns are out.
Now in that garden I would plant a wild flower meadow.
Strim it after the flowers have gone to seed.
Leave the seeds to drop to the ground..then rake up the long grass.
1st idea.....
Could you let a neighbour borrow it to keep horses or goats on it?
We did that before we got goats..a friend put her horse on our weedy field.
Ragwort completely removed first.
2nd thought.....
In UK robot mowers are brilliant...several friends have them and rave about them.
Select area to mow.
Bury cable round perimeter.
Mower takes its self back to recharge/go to its shed at night.
Works 7 days a week if needed.
Never gets tired!
https://www.google.com/search?q=robot+lawnmower+uk&client=firefox-b-d&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwi4iqvF6bD-AhVlmVwKHb09ASwQ_AUoAnoECAEQBA&biw=1280&bih=595&dpr=1.5
"Have nothing in your garden that you don't know to be useful, or believe to be beautiful."
"Have nothing in your garden that you don't know to be useful, or believe to be beautiful."