Should I or not?

My allotment plot is surrounded by 3 side plots, all overgrown and a right eyesore!

Far be it for me to cultivate the offending plots but I'm worried that the weeds growing on them will contaminate my plot.

I'm sorely tempted to SBK the offending plots to kill the weeds BUT should I?

I would seek advice from the Allotment committee but they couldn't even get the plot sizes right, I had to correct them!

Question is.......

SBK or not?

 

You could claim that it was that or reporting the committee to the ministry for allowing Ragwort to flower

 

Using weedkiller on adjacent overgrown plots can be counter-productive as they usually have a seed bank of pernicious weed seeds that will instantly take advantage of any opportunity, such as what's already there being weedkillered, giving all sorts of other nasty stuff a blank canvass.

I've found the best method is a selective attack with a strimmer before they seed/get to the stage where their seeds will continue to ripen after the stems are severed. If you can get grass to take over that will be far better than bare patches of soil spawning all sorts of new weeds.

 

Definitely not! As scrungee says you would leave it open for other invasive species to take hold...and you could then be blamed for that....regardless of your helpful nature to temporarily clear the weeds.

Strimming or covering is the way to go...just knock it down a bit.

Are the plots vacant?

Steve...

 

Thanks for all your advice guys, I'll have a quiet word with the committee, I do believe the plots to be currently vacant, in which case, I may decide to take one on myself.