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Help needed with invasive Plant at Hospice
Can you please help. I work at a local hospice and am getting a majore problem with oxalis taking over in the bedding schemes every year. The only way i can see to control it is to replace all the soil in the beds but that would be to costly to do as we are a charity and the money is better spent on patient care.
Is anyone else had this problem and how did you sort it out. Is there anything i can spray to control the problem.. Thanks in advance for any help |
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Help needed with invasive Plant at Hospice
Rich Taylor writes:
R Can you please help. I work at a local hospice and am getting a majore problem with oxalis taking over in the bedding schemes every year. The only way i can see to control it is to replace all the soil in the beds but that would be to costly to do as we are a charity and the money is better spent on patient care. Is anyone else had this problem and how did you sort it out. Is there anything i can spray to control the problem.. Google for "oxalis control". Looks like a difficult weed to control. I think I'd go with black plastic. Put black plastic over the bed, cut holes for a few plants, cover the rest with wood chips. The oxalis that doesn't reach the light should give up in a year or 2. Pulling and Roundup won't work. |
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Help needed with invasive Plant at Hospice
Rich Taylor wrote:
Can you please help. I work at a local hospice and am getting a majore problem with oxalis taking over in the bedding schemes every year. The only way i can see to control it is to replace all the soil in the beds but that would be to costly to do as we are a charity and the money is better spent on patient care. Is anyone else had this problem and how did you sort it out. Is there anything i can spray to control the problem.. Thanks in advance for any help Oxalis is a horrible weed to try to control. Digging it up, unless you get the largish whie seed at the base of each stem, is futile because the seed will soon send up another stem. Pulling usually gets just the leaf and stem. When those pretty little flowers form, seed soon follows and the plant will "spit" the seed for a wide radius (10 feet or more.) Any kind of plant in the vicinity that you may try to transplant will carry the oxalis seeds with it and infect someone else's garden. Even replacing the soil won't do the job unless you dig down far enough to remove all the seeds, If not, the plant will soon recover and sprout again. Do Google "oxalis control" to see what kind of chemicals are available in your area. It will probably take an entire season of applications to rid the site. We have been struggling with it for years, both in our flower and vegetable garden and in the lawn. gloria p |
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