The cow-parsnip can be met not only on roadsides of roads and meadows, but also on seasonal dachas. It is incredibly difficult to cope with it. This weed is resistant to many diseases and wreckers, is extremely prolific, and its seeds ascend at different times. If in time not to take necessary measures, fight against cow-parsnip can turn into real war.
If you have found separate plant on the seasonal dacha, it will be simple to destroy it. The main thing is to begin fight before the weed dumps seeds. Otherwise next year you should destroy cow-parsnip shoots all season. Seeds of this plant unevenly ascend. At the same time they can lie in the earth several years and only then ascend.
Starting destruction of plant, do not forget to protect open areas of body. Put on gloves and dense clothes, cover the face with mask. After that it is necessary to take shovel with the long handle and to cut cow-parsnip about root, in several centimeters above the ground. You watch that juice of weed has not got on skin.
Fill in the formed stump with acetic essence or herbicide. Put on it opaque package and tie up rope or elastic band. All cut-down parts of cow-parsnip need to be dried up and burned. Do not dig in at all them as on this place the new plant can appear. Sowing of lawn – effective method of fight against cow-parsnip on the site. It is necessary to mow all weeds. Over slanted spread any geocloth. Fill on it layer of the earth 5 cm thick. Plant strong lawn grass there. It is better to take the earth from other garden site where there is definitely no cow-parsnip. Otherwise in it there can be weed seeds. This method is capable to save the site from cow-parsnip completely. You will need only to watch that it did not blossom at neighbors and did not dump to you seeds. If you are going to break kitchen garden on the site, it is undesirable to apply herbicides there. And for lawn you will hardly be able to allocate the place. Other method will be suitable for such seasonal dachas. Cover the area which has grown with cow-parsnip, black film 100 microns thick and more in the spring. From above it needs to be pressed properly. Weeds will try inbarks through film. Through black film light necessary for growth and development of plants practically does not get. Besides, the earth under it excessively heats up. To sprout in such conditions, the cow-parsnip should spend large amount of energy. After all, all resources are spent, and the plant just dies off. At the beginning of June of the next year the film needs to be removed. Dig up the earth and put what was planned.