We set up a big trial of 5 different No-Till methods over the winter, expecting the cardboard and deep layers of mulch material to smother the existing vegetation. Unfortunately quite a few of the perennial weeds have been able to regrow, and now we need to decide how to fix this failure.
0:00 Trial fail
0:41 Worse than expected
1:58 Early realisation
2:50 Scutch grass
4:32 Other weeds
5:49 Getting the barrier to last
7:34 Weakening the weeds first
9:16 Dealing with it now
10:59 A valuable lesson
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