Invasive plants, which in recent years have simply flooded the vastness of our Motherland, are called representatives of the flora, spreading on an unusual territory for their type and posing a mortal threat to agricultural and forestry cultures. To protect the inhabitants of your garden and vegetable garden, you need to identify the uninvited guest as early as possible and take measures to destroy it completely and irrevocably. Let's see how to do this.
Hogweed. Illustration for this article is used under a standard license © ofazende.com
I recommend reading: June and July protective spraying of tomatoes to increase yields
Sosnovsky's hogweed
- Description. It is believed that the hogweed comes from the North Caucasus. According to another version, a defector from the United States. Herbaceous plant of the Umbrella family. Average growth is about one to two meters, but sometimes specimens up to 5 meters in height come across. It has a thick and dense stem of a purple hue with very large green-yellowish leaves. A complex paniculate inflorescence in the form of an umbrella with rays, from 35 to 70 pieces, and white flowers. When touched, it can cause severe burns that do not heal for a long time.
- How to fight. Cut off the separately growing individual using a shovel with a long handle. Before that, you need to put on tight clothing, a hat, gloves, a mask and glasses. Treat the remaining root with special chemicals to destroy vegetation or remove it along with the soil. Burn the stem with leaves.
Squirting cucumber
- Description. He migrated to us from the semi-deserts of the Mediterranean and Western Asia. Perennial herb of the Pumpkin family. Creeping stem with short twigs. Leaves are heart-shaped. Flowers are five-petalled yellow. Fruits are oblong, with fine green fur. When ripe, they explode and scatter their seeds 6-9 meters around the entire circumference. It spreads very quickly and is not afraid of frost.
- How to fight. Destruction will not be difficult. The main thing is to be in time before the fruits ripen. Mow, shovel and burn. To plow the land with roots.
Goldenrod
- Description. The goldenrod sailed to us from the North American continent at the end of the 19th century. Perennial of the Astrov family. The stem is thin, straight, extending upward. Leaves are alternating, oblong, in the form of serrated plates. The flowers are small, bright yellow. But negligence and untimely reaction can lead to malicious infestation by this plant.
- How to fight. The most effective remedy in the fight against goldenrod is its systematic mowing. You need to mow it 2 to 4 times a year, in May and August. Dig up the soil after mowing. Herbicides can be used.
Goldenrod. Illustration for the article is used from the site mrfilin.com
California maple
- Description. The name speaks of its place of origin. Deciduous tree of the Sapindaceae family. The average height of a tree is 15 meters. The trunk is covered with gray bark, at the top it is divided into many processes. The leaves are light green odd-pinnate, not like the maple leaves we are used to. He absolutely does not tolerate neighbors, so everyone who grows next to him survives.
- How to fight. Only cutting down with uprooting will help. But be aware that the California or Ash-leaved maple belongs to the third category of green spaces, and you need the appropriate documents to cut it down.
Lupine
Lupine. Illustration for this article is used under a standard license © ofazende.com
- Description. Perennial shrub from the legume family. The root system is in the form of a rod. Stems are dense, stiff with a varying number of leaves. The branches are short, spread out in different directions. Leaves are compound, on long legs, connected to the stem by a fleshy leafy cushion with elongated stipules. The inflorescence looks like a multi-flowered apical brush. Flowers are placed alternately, can be blue, red and yellow.
- How to fight. Mowing at least twice a year. Also, lupine flowers are very much to the liking of goats and sheep.
Do you know how to deal with pests in the country?
Original articleand many other materials, you can find on ourwebsite.
Read also: Three ways to cleanse the garden from infection and restore its fertility