Last season I noticed that my
raised bed was filled with
roots. Fine roots that I believe are feeder roots from a hackberry tree. This has happened to me before with a
compost bin (
https://permies.com/t/139281/composting/Tree-Ate-Compost)
So what do I do about it? Naturally I want the fertility of the bed to go towards the annual vegetables I grow in it. I plotted out this garden thinking the hackberry would be good shade for the more shade loving fruit shrubs north of it. But now I wonder if we'll ever get along because this year the whole bed is probably going to be a big mat of roots.
I can't just move the bed. It's a huglekulture bed with tons of
wood inside and it's dug into the slight slope. Do I trim the tree? Remove it? Run a saw blade through the ground just east of the raised bed to prune the roots? I'm at a loss.