Curses, it's dead!

[alec dawe]

Continuing with the prepare the garden for track laying saga, have just found that the forsythia seems to be dead.
Damned great thing, which will have to come out before I can lay track near it, or I'd destroy the track tying to get the shrub out afterwards.
I think there's something nasty lurking under that flower bed. It used to be part of the yard complex for a turkey farm, you can still see the outline of he grain silos in the public open space next door, especially in a dy summer.
That particular flower bed seems to kill things, especially deeper rooted pants. So far, the tally is two silver birch trees, two buddliah bushes, one lilac, the forsythia, one Californian lilac, another shrub that I can't remember the name of, a flowering current, and a couple of other shubs. They all thrive for a couple of years, then for no accountable reason, just die! My theory is that there was something nasty buried deepish, so they die when the root sytem gets deep enough.

I'm gonna have to dig the grubber out from the back of the shed to get the roots out

 

[Andy Worsfold]

And I thought Turkey poop was a good fertiliser.

Wasn't Bernard Matthews Turkey's was it?

 

[Rhinochugger]

Sounds like the ideal place for the railway - well nothing will ever grow there, darling

 

[alec dawe]

I'll let you put that proposal to SWMBO

 

[daveyb]

could be to much nitrogen ,,, that kills plants

 

[alec dawe]

It's out, thank goodness, and the route ahead is clear.

 

[Netty]

Probably Ribes Alec. I would agree with your theory, most of that stuff would survive a nuclear war. Could turn it into a rockery? All shallow rooted small stuff in scale with the railway