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Gosh there is quite a bit of wall there, isn't there. I think you are going to have to get rid of the grass (or at least get it under control) before you can start planting, otherwise the grass will bully the herbs into submission.
If it were me, I would probably try tackling a small section first, to see how it works.
Will the grass come out easily? If so, pull it out, break up the soil, perhaps add some compost and then plant.
If the grass doesn't come out easily, then I would take a strimmer or garden shears to it, and then cover a section with carpet, weed matting, cardboard or whatever, until the grass has died off. That will take a few months to a year, unfortunately, so you probably won't be able to plant the herbs until next year.
If that is too long-term, then you could kill the grass off with glyphosate (Round-up), but be very careful where you are spraying as you don't want to hurt the hedge behind. |
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Is it a retaining wall, i.e. is the field ont he other side higher than your yard? Or is it an overgrown dry stone construction?
If it's the latter, then I'd go looking around the neighbourhood and peek at the other dry stone walls. Different areas have different styles, and around your way the earth filled model might be it. You get them more in the South West than elsewhere, and eventually it becomes a big, gloriously wild flower filled grassy hedge.
If it's the case that you're in a stone-heartings area, then I may be temted to play with the wall a lot more. But a word of warning; grass holds walls like that together, you may suffer some erosion of the wall if you weed it, so proceed with lots of caution.
If you choose to keep it as is, go looking for some native hedgerow plants. There's lots of good eating in wild garlic, sorrel, chickweed, jacky by the hedge, fat hen, etc. Those plants should do OK if you pick your spots with care (the garlic somewhere shady, the chickweed and fat hen anywhere you expose a bit of soui, the sorrel snuk in between clumps of grass, etc). Add in some appropriate wild flowers (again, see what's local and in keeping with the area) and you've got a glorious, useful little wall there.
If the wall is holding back the field on the other side, be very careful. You don't want that field in your yard! |
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