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- Purslane is difficult to combat
- Purslane develops up to 10,000 seeds
- If necessary, remove top soil layer
- Tips & Tricks
Purslane is difficult to combat
Although purslane is a tasty and healthy vegetables, but also spreads very quickly and can be a plague. The problem is that purslane quickly displaces all other plants - as a rule, you can not eat that much, as the herb grows back. The fight is very difficult, which is why you need to act in good time.
Purslane develops up to 10,000 seeds
Purslane sows itself very reliably, with each plant producing about 10,000 seeds. The problem with these seeds is that they can germinate in the soil for up to 30 or even 40 years - and therefore always come back, if one has not expected it at all. Therefore, if you have purslane in the garden, be careful not to allow the plants to flower in any way. The inconspicuous small, yellow flowers appear between June and October and must be cut regularly so that the fruit capsules with the black-brown seed granules can not even form. However, if purslane grows where it does not belong, it only helps to tear it out.
If necessary, remove top soil layer
If the plant population is already very strong, you probably will not be able to control it anymore.In these cases, only the use of herbicides usually helps, whereby these naturally make not only the purslane, but also all other vegetables and herbs undrinkable in the vegetable garden. In particularly severe cases - if the plants come back despite the constant pull-out - you can also remove the top layer of soil together with the seeds contained therein and instead fill new topsoil. A chemical treatment to make any remaining seeds harmless in the soil, however, is not possible.
Tips & Tricks
Another option is simply to mulle heavily affected areas or to cover them with highly proliferating plants. However, there still remains the problem of seeds that remain germinable in the soil for a very long time, ie. H. The purslane will initially be suppressed after such an action, but then come back.
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