This little post on bindweed brought a smile to my face and some useful info to feed on. On a different but related strain--about soil improving
discoveries. Last year looking for bio straw in manageable cubes to stack, I had to settle for what one farmer in France called "hay-straw" which I'd planned as carbon for my composting toilets and mulch on my garden at times. What was delivered was really rustic bio HAY with lots of seed!! This was no problem for a true heating composting of toilet material, but the extreme heat and dryness in the garden in western France last year compelled me to use it for protective mulch on the garden over garlic, onion, and "echalotte" plants since I had nothing else.
What a discovery-- in the late spring pockets of very sturdy grass I had to weed out of the garden in order to sow and plant BUT the very nature of the soil had changed into a soft, fine grained wonderfully textured earth full of life that I hadn't managed to get before by decompacting, rock-weeding, organically fertilizing, and adding compost. You might say that it's the end result of a long process, but I was trully amazed and thankful
of the change that good old grass growing had brought to the soil!! Margaret Charroy
