Back Mountain NEPA,
Any chance of you pulling the strawberries out
and putting them in another spot of bucket or something for a while and then taking that area that has all those bad and nasty
weeds, and doing several things to it...... roto till it up, put tons of compost and leaf mould and cardboard and black plastic on top... Keep some heavy stuff on top even too to hold it down...
Leave it there for at least two years.....
Then when you're ready to
plant again, undo the black plastic and
plant right in it..
The worms should have come up and did their work from the bottom up, having the black plastic and so much on top should kill the
weeds and not allow them to go up to the top, and if by chance some did live, if you leave such a heavy load of new compost and that decayed leaf mould, the
weeds will be so spindley when they do get to the top, they will pull unbelievably easy to pull.
And it's not too hard of work, maybe rototilling would be the longest procedure.
Weezie
