soil sterilsation

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holttum
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Hi

When you sterilise soil how deep would you go to get rid of the annual weeds 2" 3" 4"


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alan refail
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The first question has to be: What do you mean by "sterilising"?

A quick search tells me that no chemical soil sterilants are available to gardeners. It's not something I've ever done, so I may be wrong.
holttum
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Hi

I have brought a steriliser that heats the soil up to 70c sorry i should have explained that

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