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Many thanks to both of you for your suggestions. Weed identification isn’t my strong suit, I’ve always wanted a large garden, now I have one I have a lot to learn!
I think im going to use a weed burner then maybe get a few tons of fresh gravel to lay over the top, then just burn back any new growth going forward.

Thanks again,
Mark.

[MrErusParticipant]

Charles & fzjohnson thanks for your responses.

Below is a message I tried to send earlier today, but for some reason it didn’t appear, having then tried to re-post it, it said it was a duplicate and could therefore not post the message, weird but not unusual, any here goes……

…..I must confess I already had some knowledge (though not firsthand) with regards to the topic I mentioned, but I wanted to hear what someone with your vast amount of experience thought about it – i.e. someone with a far more reasonable/sensible approach than I.

Having researched this topic many times over the last few years, its appears that whilst some bacteria have been shown to enter the roots it is unlikely, though more likely in non-soil growing techniques (i.e hydroponics) and/or requires a larger concentration of pathogens, far higher than would be considered normal.

I believe the No-Dig approach offers another huge advantage over all other growing methods with regards to food safety because of what it fundamentally sets out to achieve – a soil naturally abundant with a huge population of micro-flora (indigenous organisms), these will easily out-compete other pathogens for the nutrients required to survive. So I would conjecture that perhaps No-Dig has yet another huge advantage when viewed from a food safety standpoint as well as all its other significant benefits.

Like you said if plants didn’t have methods to control pathogen uptake, we’d all be in a lot of trouble, and the Human population would either be very low or extinct. I think modern unnatural farming methods are now beginning to put us more a risk, I’m certainly no hippy but you cant beat nature at its own game, foolish to try but it doesn’t seem to stop us.

Just a few thoughts, No-Dig continues to fascinate me. Finding you on YouTube has been a game-changer for me on many levels.

If you’d rather I kept these type of opinions to myself then by all means let me know and of course delete this thread, its just me sharing some thoughts.

Regards,
Mark.

[MrErusParticipant]

Charles, thank you so much for the reply.

Firstly, I’d like to thank you for sharing your vast experiences of No-Dig gardening, your YouTube video’s have been a pure delight to watch and a huge inspiration for me, I’m very much looking forward to getting your books now.

Could vermin pee get absorbed through the soil and into the plant via the roots? I’m just curious if roots had any type of in-built filtration to prevent the uptake of pathogens.
I wish I knew more about these mechanisms.

I was born in the late 70’s, I think modern life and its assault on all germs, antibacterial this and that has given me an OCD level obsession with germs, together with media pushing how disease ridden vermin are, is a bad combination, I think (well I know really) perhaps I need relax a bit more about it, but its difficult in the modern world.

Apologies for the waffle,

Many thanks,
Mark.

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