"Grade A Top Soil" and Weeds Appearing

Last post 11-07-2010 10:08 PM by Goldcrest Gardeners. 10 replies.

• 04/07/2010 01:06 PM

  Goldcrest Gardeners Location: Bacup Joined on: 04 Jul 2010 Posts: 16

  Reply | Contact Could anybody help with a bit of a pain of a problem. We have just built some raised beds and filled them with top soil. The supplier said it was "Grade A" top soil mixed with top range compost. It must be admitted that the soil looked and felt good. The problem we have is that  there are lots of shoots and small leaves coming through now. We are, at the moment pulling them out by hand, but have been advised by a neighbour that we could just hoe them and they will die off. Because we are fairly new to the gardening game(2 years), we were wondering if this was so.

• 04/07/2010 03:28 PM

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  Valerian Location: South Essex Joined on: 20 Jun 2010 Posts: 463

  Reply | Contact Hello Goldcrest Gardeners and welcome to the forum. I will be refilling some raised beds soon,as  I'm going to make them deeper. I regard these weeds as compost fodder. As your neighbour said, I'll hoe them off and then put them into my compost bin. As plants that have been damaged by the hoe grow back but more weakly I'll have more green matter to add, until the little darlings give up the ghost. Good luck with your project.

• 04/07/2010 09:11 PM	In reply to
  Goldcrest Gardeners Location: Bacup Joined on: 04 Jul 2010 Posts: 16	Reply | Contact Thanks for the help, I was thinking that we would have had to spend ages bent over the border pulling the little darlings out. Thank you also for the good luck message. The garden was actually a new build, just grass and a fence, beena a hard 2 years graft, but nearly done now.

• 04/07/2010 09:15 PM	In reply to
  lillyrose Location: kent Joined on: 02 Mar 2010 Posts: 2,973	Reply | Contact Hi Goldcrest Gardeners and welcome, if you are able, post some photos of your garden for us all to see

• 04/07/2010 09:35 PM	In reply to
  Goldcrest Gardeners Location: Bacup Joined on: 04 Jul 2010 Posts: 16	Reply | Contact Have just started to look into that, with some help from admin and photobucket. They will be on soon, hopefully

• 05/07/2010 09:10 AM	In reply to
  lillyrose Location: kent Joined on: 02 Mar 2010 Posts: 2,973	Reply | Contact Look forward to seeing them

• 05/07/2010 09:24 AM	In reply to
  bogweevil Location: Joined on: 02 Mar 2004 Posts: 2,766	Reply | Contact Good top soil is hard to find and sometimes it is contaminated with persistant weeds such as Japanese knotweed and horsetail - such soil is clealry unfit for purpose and you are entitleed to replacement or refund.   Boggy Beware the bat-eared bogweevil

• 05/07/2010 10:38 PM	In reply to
  Goldcrest Gardeners Location: Bacup Joined on: 04 Jul 2010 Posts: 16	Reply | Contact Hope these pics come out ok.   This was how we started      Then things got messy

• 05/07/2010 10:42 PM	In reply to
  Goldcrest Gardeners Location: Bacup Joined on: 04 Jul 2010 Posts: 16	Reply | Contact Oops bit quick with the enter button      Got some more pics with further works done. Will show them when we get sorted.Thank you for your interest. When you think all this started over a glass of wine in the original garden.

• 06/07/2010 08:31 AM	In reply to
  lillyrose Location: kent Joined on: 02 Mar 2010 Posts: 2,973	Reply | Contact Hi Goldcrest Gardeners, Thanks for the pics, dangerous things glasses of wine. Seriously though, the garden is looking really good, you have obviously put in alot of hard work. I will look forward to further up dates

• 11/07/2010 10:08 PM	In reply to
  Goldcrest Gardeners Location: Bacup Joined on: 04 Jul 2010 Posts: 16	Reply | Contact If anyone wants to see what a couple of glasses of wine can cause, please feel free to go to http://s950.photobucket.com/albums/ad341/goldcrestgardeners/Our%20Garden/ ansd let us kmow what you think. We have only been gardening for about 4 years.