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Digging up Docks is easy very at the moment

  • 24-08-2018 7:27pm
    #1
    Bricriu
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    Because of all the recent rain, the ground is saturated and soft, and digging up Docks, with root intact, is easy very at the moment.

    Get your garden fork and dig it in fully on one side of the Dock and lift it a bit, and move fork from side to side to loosen Dock; dig the fork in on opposite side, and it may lift out. If it is a big Dock, dig in on all four sides before lifting out.

    I've dug up thirty huge bruisers today and most of them had the full root intact. You have to get all the root out or they will grow again.


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  • #2
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
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    Where in the country are you? While we have had a few heavy showers, the soil around the North East is far from saturated nor soft. The South east, I believe is still parched.


  • #3
    my3cents
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    Amelia Short Pilgrim wrote: »
    Where in the country are you? While we have had a few heavy showers, the soil around the North East is far from saturated nor soft. The South east, I believe is still parched.

    South East here and wife was complaining the ground is too hard to dig to plant out a few things she has had in pots for ages.

    Grass has come back really well though.


  • #4
    Bricriu
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 291 ✭✭Bricriu


    I'm in the West, and ground is saturated here. I thought the whole country got plenty of rain.


  • #5
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
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    Bricriu wrote: »
    I'm in the West, and ground is saturated here. I thought the whole country got plenty of rain.

    Not at all. Enough to green up the lawns but the soil moisture deficit level is very poor.


  • #6
    Roen
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    Sunny south east too and the ground is still bullet hard. Enough rain to make the weeds and grass take off but that's about it.
    I'd normally be timing my grass cuts due to the ride on sinking tracks in the normally wet site. Only had to worry about it once this year rather than every week.

    Truly bizarre year in terms of a mild enough winter followed by a real sting in the tail when the snow came. Things were so far behind that by the time they were catching up in May we then ran into a long sunny spell followed by a drought.

    It's over now but we're still between 20-40% of normal rain fall depending on your area.


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