Couch Grass

Part of our allotment was cover in grass, strawberries and saplings:



Roger had already dug half of it, and I attacked the other half this morning - here's what it looked like after:



When I'd finished a gardener from the plot next door popped over (farmer for 30 years, so he knew what he was talking about), and told me it looked like a bad case of couch grass!

Apparently this isn't good - it's hard to get rid of without weedkiller (something like Roundup). I'm much rather keep organic, so we'll try and dig it out, but it looks like it might not be easy.