Portulak - useful plant. However if he gets on kitchen garden, then can fill all space and will prevent to grow to cultural plants. Other names of portulak: buterlak, chicken leg, crassula, sosonka. Even one sunflower seed of this weed is capable to remove huge posterity and to litter all site.
Its feature that it perfectly grows even on the poorest soils, and on feeder, lovingly prepared for cultures, breeds many times quicker. Therefore as soon as the first appears boring of crassula, – delete immediately and you watch new sprouts.
It will be useful to glance for fence: if there is portulak, then and in this place it needs to be destroyed. He breeds as seeds (thousands of small seeds from one plant), and shoots of roots and stalks – just creeps because of fence in kitchen garden. Also forms here such useless carpet which does not give life to other plants.
How to get rid of portulak (crassula) without chemistry
Weeding and once again weeding – here the best way. However it is necessary to remove the slightest pieces of plant because the new weed can grow from them. Important each 7 days to watch new shoots of portulak and to delete them, seeds have not ripened yet. It is better to remove plants on laying in the sun that they have completely dried. If lashes adjoin to the earth – from them new shoots will go.
Important: for weeding of weed it is impossible to use chopper, the subsurface cultivator, secateurs and other similar devices. They divide portulak into parts from which new weeds will grow, and them will become even more. Only careful singling of pieces and backs will give desirable effect.
It is also possible to apply mulching by straw, sawdust and so forth. The mulch is spread layer of 3-5 cm, it is not less. If the crassula has strongly expanded – cover it with boards, cardboard or piece of roofing material that she did not receive light and moisture.
Also redigging by pitchfork will help: at the same time it is possible to choose stalks and backs, and seeds will fall in depth and will not be able to sprout because they ascend when deepening no more than 2 cm.
There is such way as the emergency watering. The bed is dug over, daily watered much, and watch shoots of portulak. Approximately in week there will be pink boring - it is and is portulak. They are deleted, and more here the weed will not appear.
How to get rid of portulak (crassula) by means of chemistry
If contamination of the site portulaky has reached catastrophic scales – herbicides of continuous action will help. They are applied in the fall when the crop is already reaped. Skilled fighters with portulaky advise double dose: compound of the medicine Raundap with Lazurite, Piramin or Oktigen. Do solution strictly according to the instruction.
It is better to carry out spraying at clear weather. If within 10 hours the rain was not – enough one processing. If was – spraying should be repeated.
In two weeks all portulak will dry. Such method of destruction of crassula can be used if it grows along fence or on paths.
The main thing when using herbicides is to close cultural plants that they have not suffered.