Re: Electric fence for chickens?

Jill wrote:
"a_l_p" <hay_hell_pea@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:en19l5$i8t$1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

Better still do the newspaper thing underneath them. Wet ground, wet-through newspapers, at least 6 pages thick - thicker the better. Both being wet the paper sticks and moulds to the ground and keeps the weeds from coming through.


I gather this is not so great where the natural climate is very dry -- its also not great here where its very wet. The paper either drys and blows away too quickly or gets too wet and disintegrates before becoming established as a surface. Tried it as a mulch here :(
Hessian backed carpet can work well if you can get it
As can corn starch mulch which is used in agriculture. I have experimented with this for a large perennial border and its working well

Many years ago when I had in the shed an ancient agitator washing machine that was still functioning I experimented with Synthetic Dog Vomit - well, it started out as mashed newspaper but the result was definitely SDV! Well-soaked newspapers agitated to shreds then bucketed out to set solid and weed-free. I don't recall putting anything in it to make it stick together but it did anyway. A long slow process and suitable only for a very tiny section (which mine isn't) or a gigantic agitator e.g. industrial cement mixer!

A L P
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