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- Fight fern - good reasons and methods
- Reasons that make fighting meaningful
- Control agent no. 1: digging out
- Control agent No. 2: Mowing
- Control agent No. 3: Chemical Club
- Tips & Tricks
Fern is poisonous and should not be in the hands of children
Fight fern - good reasons and methods
When he is in the forest, he does not worry and trouble most people. But dares the fern in the garden before, proliferating in the bed or makes up the well-kept lawn, is over with fun.
Reasons that make fighting meaningful
All ferns are poisonous. Especially pets like cats and dogs are at risk. Even grazing animals such as horses, cows, sheep and goats are not immune to the danger.
Furthermore, toddlers could quickly poison this plant. Especially the bracken fern is considered highly toxic. Even inhaling low doses of spores can lead to symptoms of intoxication such as vomiting and paralysis.
Another reason to fight fern is that it likes to spread through its spores and over its foothills. The bracken fern and the funnel fern grow outright. This will displace other plants.
Control agent no. 1: digging out
Biodegradable to the environment is to dig up and destroy the disturbing ferns. But the spores have already formed with bad luck and the ferns appear again next year. Therefore, digging should be done best in the spring before sporulation. In the following year, a follow-up inspection is recommended.
When digging ferns, it should also be noted that most ferns are deep-rooters. Their subterranean foothills are far-reaching. They should also be rigorously removed (best pulled out) when digging.
Control agent No. 2: Mowing
Control agent No. 3: Chemical Club
If nothing helps and the environment is not important to you, you still have the opportunity to combat the fern with chemicals. Herbicide use is generally successful in the first year. However, stocks are usually recovering and next year the chemical leg has to be re-fed at the expense of groundwater.
Tips & Tricks
Prevention is better than fighting: fern grows on nutrient-poor soils. If the soil is regularly fertilized and mowed, no fern will spread at all.