How I got rid of an old horseradish bush in 1 summer season. And without the help of her husband

A fiery fireworks display, fellow gardeners! Are you familiar with the agony of getting rid of a horseradish bush?

Fiend of hell from the world of garden plants. Medusa Gorgon in the garden - you cut one head, a new one or two new ones grow. Thunderstorm of weak shovels and a nervous summer resident. It's all about him, about a surprisingly tenacious horseradish bush.

Fortunately, my bush remained only in memory (there is still frost on the skin) and in the photo:

Surely, one of my readers will want to object: "This is a wonderful spice, how a hand rises to such a useful plant in cooking!" I agree that sometimes horseradish is irreplaceable. Both in the kitchen and in the garden.

But! It should only grow in the place where it is supposed to. And the bush that lurked by the fence did not fit into my site layout in any way.

I challenged a shitty bush about 3 years ago. She dug up the earth, taking out huge rhizomes, broke the handle of an old shovel. I covered it with black film, as it was advised on the Internet - the shading gave my enemy only slight discomfort, and after a month the shoots "pierced" the plastic shield. And under it there were many whitish twigs ...

But in the spring of 2018 I decided: enough is enough! We act systematically and seriously. Armed with a pen and a piece of paper, I studied the forums and wrote out the recommendations of the gardeners. Those who have dealt with the disaster in practice. I wrote out everything I can use.

And I made my own plan of action To attack the enemy simultaneously on all fronts. There is really nothing complicated, you just need to set aside a little time during one summer cottage season. I describe everything point by point.

Operation "Shitty": we move out a daring bush from the garden

I took the first step in the spring, as early as possible. Shaggy leaves crawled out of the ground and it was possible to accurately determine the location of the horseradish rhizome. No, I didn't dig it up.

Because digging without other measures usually leads to the opposite result. Horseradish begins to grow with a vengeance. After all, the rhizome is surprisingly tenacious and it will not work to pick out all the fragments from the shovel. As a result, the summer resident digs out the "uterine" root, and its particles sprout around ...

The first thing I did was use the famous Roundup or Tornado herbicide. I don’t remember exactly, and it’s still the same in composition. But I didn't want to poison a whole piece of land in the garden, which would later be used for planting... I just prepared the solution according to the instructions and generously injected it into the rhizome with an ordinary syringe.

And only a couple of weeks later, when the leaves dried up, she took up a shovel. Let the root "scatter" - all the same, it is already poisoned and most of the "fragments" will not germinate.

Eh, if only this could end. It was not so. By June, "residual phenomena" had sprouted anyway. I realized: to give up everything half way - and the master will again put his tenacious paws in my garden.

I used 2 tips at once:

• Cover the bush with an opaque material. Only from my own experience I knew: you can't get off with a film here. And the bush began to grow under the sheet of iron.
• Periodically, I lifted the leaf and cut off the whitish growth. Judging by the reflections of summer residents on the forums, the root will try with all its might to come out and grow greenery, but sooner or later its resources will not be enough to fight.

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By September there were a couple of "centers" left. I dug out the ground, found only 3 large roots. And she acted according to the already familiar scenario with a herbicide. I waited to see if something else would sprout, and in October I carefully dug the place again, picking out every speck. By the way, there were almost no living shitty roots. Unless I used a sieve)

In the spring, just in case, I covered the place with a sheet of iron. I took it off in June - I didn't find any signs of life! Cheers cheers! The bush never returned.

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