Reply To: The cost of no-dig

[John]

Hi Charles

Thank you for the helpful comments. It has been 3 months of light exclusion.

My experiments suggest that black polythene is a little better than mypex at light exclusion and it is amazing how some shoots, particularly when covering ‘stubble’, find their way through the mypex. However the mypex has other advantages for the long term.

Of course if I now factor in the cost of going to see the chiropractor, necessary after too many days bending down and shifting the large timbers used to stop the mypex blowing away, the cost per bed becomes astronomical! Perhaps I should make some long staples from my roll of 4mm galvanised wire.