Kitchen Garden Forum

I've just been given a well rotted horse manure heap, unfortunately it is FULL of convolvulus roots, so needs careful spreading out and pulling out the roots without snapping any. I put all the roots onto a bucket for disposal off later, but found that they had disappeared the next day when I went back to do some more sorting. However my cockeral (he escaped at Christmas!) came to my help and started picking out the roots as I spread the manure over the bed. He would even dig into the manure to make sure there was not any hiding underneath. I can't put more than a wheel barrowful down at a time as the cockeral gets full, but it saves me bending down to sort them out.

Dear Vivie veg, thats a new one on me, but a very handy cockeral to have about by the sounds of it, i think you best keep an eye on him or he might be turning up on someone elses bindweed ridden allotment.

Looks like I might need to borrow your cockerel Vivie. Last year I sowed some Morning Glory seeds (the purple convolulous-type climbing plants) thinking they were annuals but they seeded and kept popping up everywhere. I'm expecting another spate to appear as soon as the soil temperature warms up. I didn't realise they could regenerate themselves so energetically.

Can I be after you please Primrose with the Cockral

I've got the dreaded bindweed. I'll pay him whatever he wants to eat and as much as he likes

I think you're lucky, Primrose. I'd love it if my Morning Glory survived the winter. Apparently it's a pest in Australia. But a very pretty one.
If you've got bindweed, Lizzie, I know a surefire cure....















move house!

Hi Jenny

I would move plots but the others have mares tale. I know which i'd prefer. It's much better than when I first got the plot. It was then covered in bindweed and couch. Thank God for glypsophate. I should have shares in the company i've used the stuff. I've given up trying to dig the bugger out. I just spray it now. I find a flame thrower particularly satisfying

Shame you can't eat it.
Unless you're a cockerel of course.

A few of us would like to keep chucks on the site but, with the way things are, it wouldn't be fair. We couldn't guarentee the animals safety with the idiots we're plagued with.