Greetings, friends!
Agree that horseradish is a very necessary and healthy vegetable! What seasoning for jellied meat would do without it? But often for the gardener, this cultivated weed that has grown uncontrollably over the site is the worst enemy.
It is believed that if he conquered the plot, then nothing can be taken out of him. You don't have to try. Yes, I thought so too until recently. And now in my garden horseradish grows only where it should be me!
And how much I dug it up. But if even a piece of the root remained, all - all efforts were in vain. But from a friend, I learned how to remove such annoying plants from the garden. Horseradish, it happens, grows right in the bushes. You can't get there with a shovel, and chemistry will harm a useful plant.
Our site was not fenced in before. There was such a kind of dump here - the neighbors dumped garbage from their gardens on it. Including horseradish dug out as unnecessary. After the paperwork was completed, the first thing we did was put up a fence and began to clear this mess. They removed everything, but the horseradish remained. Himself.
At first, I was not worried that there was a vegetable in the garden that did not need to be planted. But then, when perennials began to be planted, I was upset, because horseradish did not want to put up with our plans and climbed everywhere: in raspberries, currants, dill, flowers.
I began to be annoyed by such a harassment form of behavior. and it would be fine if there was one or two hearths. No, he was spike overshadowing everything around. But over time, the winner was drawn and I was it.
And she made him grow in a certain place very simply. I needed tin cans and a scoop. In early spring, when the young shoots just started to hatch out of the soil, they raked the ground around the young horseradish and put a jar on it. For fidelity, she covered the jar with a brick (so it does not fly off). So the whole summer the hell was under the can and the brick. And the next year he disappeared. He was nowhere to be found. except for those places where I did not cover it with a metal hat.
The essence of the method is that in this way we deprive the plant of light and do not allow its ground part to grow. It cannot store food for the winter period and dies during frosts.
Sometimes it is advised to simply cut off all the greens regularly at the root. But it's so long and dreary. All summer will have to run and look for horseradish in the garden. It turned out to be safer for me under the can.
It is very convenient to use in difficult places (flower garden, bushes). No need to disturb other plants - covered the horseradish with a jar and that's it, sit and wait for the result. The root itself dies from natural processes, and there is no need to poison the ground with chemistry once again.
Similarly, you can lime horse sorrel, and other malicious weeds with long and difficult roots to remove or located in difficult places on the site.
