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Sometimes you go to your acquaintances at the dacha, and there delicate fragile plants with small cute white stars spread under your feet like a carpet. It makes me want to pet them. But in fact, these beautiful flowers are the worst enemy of gardens and orchards.
This weed wood lice causes a lot of trouble to the owners of summer cottages and household plots. It is very difficult to get it out of the garden. What kind of measures to combat it were not invented by resourceful gardeners! Novice gardeners are worried about what measures can be taken to eradicate the wood lice weed – a pest of cultivated plants. Let’s try to answer this question.
Little about the plant
In nature, there are several types of woodlice. In the expanses, forest chickweed grows. Woodlouse weed is an annual, rarely biennial herbaceous plant. Despite its small size, one plant, if not pulled out in time, covers a fairly large area. The stems of the weed woodlice are highly branched, they have the smallest villi. Early in the morning, while the dew is still lying, in the rays of the rising sun, the plant seems to be crystal.
The development time of the ephemera plant is about a month. After that, the wood lice dies off, but does not disappear from the garden. The productivity of this weed can be envied. The method of reproduction is seed and vegetative (pieces of the stem that sprout roots).
Literally in 4 weeks, the smallest seeds (up to 25000) ripen on the woodlouse weed, which immediately germinate, since they do not have a dormant period. Seeds can lie quietly in the ground for several years, they do not die in either heat or frost.
For seed germination, +4 degrees is enough, so she “meets” the owners of the plots before other weeds. Mokritsa weed is not afraid of even the first frost. Chickweed rapidly reproduces in warm weather, covering the surface under cultivated plants with a green carpet, oppressing them.
Woodlice plants are popularly called. It grows on fertile soil, in partial shade and with strong moisture.
Useful Properties
No matter what we talk about harmful plants, they simply do not exist in nature. They are harmful to gardeners and gardeners, interfere with the cultivation of cultivated plants. In fact, each plant, including the forest starfish, has its own purpose.
Mokritsu is also called bird salad. Our ancestors fed chickens, geese, ducks, turkeys with this weed. Do not refuse the weed of wood lice and pigs. Yes, and the people themselves did not shun the first greens, they prepared various dishes from wood lice.
Useful properties of wood lice
- Participates in metabolism.
- Improves joint mobility due to collagen synthesis.
- It has a rejuvenating effect on the body.
- Woodlouse weed is used for arthrosis.
- Increases the body’s immunity.
- Reduces oxidative processes, promotes the removal of toxins and toxins.
- It is used as a prophylactic to prevent oncology and ischemia.
- The herb woodlice is used in the creation of gynecological preparations.
- It has a beneficial effect on the heart muscle and blood vessels, cerebral circulation, and normalizes blood pressure.
Harvesting medicinal herbs of woodlice weed can be done independently or purchased at a pharmacy in a dry form.
Asterisk Rich:
- vitamins of groups C, E, B, carotene.
- magnesium, copper, iron and cobalt, wax and chlorine;
- alkaloids and flavonoids, lipids, saponams;
- essential oils, tannins;
- complex nitrogen-free organic compounds.
Useful properties of wood lice weed:
How to get rid of a green pest
No matter how attractive the plant is with its beneficial properties, but the wood lice growing in gardens and orchards is primarily a weed plant.
What harm does forest starfish do in gardens and orchards:
- Growing, the weed covers the ground like a blanket, does not let the rays of the sun through, and excludes air circulation. Therefore, in places where there is a lot of woodlice, excellent conditions are created for the development of harmful microorganisms that absorb beneficial bacteria. Under the green cover of the forest stellate weed, a favorable atmosphere is created for the weevil, aphids, cruciferous flea and other pests of the garden and vegetable garden.
- One should not think that the thin, tender roots of the plant are harmless. In fact, the root system of the woodlice weed is so branched and powerful that cultivated plants constantly lack moisture.
- Pulls the weed out of the soil nutrients, impoverishing it.
Many gardeners and gardeners, not only beginners, but also trainees, are often interested in how to get rid of wood lice. Although they are well aware that any measures in the fight against weeds are temporary. Any plants, except for cultivated ones, have excellent vitality, the ability to reproduce even under adverse conditions. Science has not yet invented means of weed control that defeats them once and for all. Yes, this is not necessary, otherwise the natural balance will be disturbed.
Mechanical impact and agricultural technology
- Mechanical weed removal is the most common and safest method. Manual removal is best done while the wood lice have not yet had time to form a powerful root system. The roots of the woodlice weed look like thin white threads, they break off at the base.
- Agrotechnical norms are effective against weeds: plowing and digging the site, loosening with the establishment of heat in order to destroy the seeds that begin to germinate.
- We get rid of wood lice with a sharp chopper or flat cutter. If you deepen the instrument by two centimeters, then the growth point will be cut off, the plant will cease its vital activity. It is good to carry out this work on a sunny windless day. The woodlouse weed must be selected from the site all the way to the smallest branches and laid on a film to dry.
It is better to work with a pitchfork, digging up the soil several times. Not only grass is selected from the earth, but also roots.
Reducing the acidity of the soil
How to decide on soil
The fight against forest stellate will be more successful if the acidity of the soil is reduced. Gardeners and gardeners, unlike agronomists, do not have laboratory equipment to determine how acidic the soil is on the site. Plants can help with this.
Let’s take a look at some helpful tips:
- Wild mint, horsetail, tricolor violet grow on too acidic soils.
- On slightly acidic soils, chamomile, dandelion, gout, clover, and coltsfoot feel great.
- Neutral soils are chosen by nettle and white gauze (quinoa).
Focusing on wild plants, you can approximately determine the acidity of the soil in the area.
Soil deoxidation methods
In order for the fight against the invasion of wood lice weed on the site to give a greater effect, it will be necessary to carry out preventive measures to deoxidize the soil. There are different options for substances that help make the soil less acidic, which means there will be less weed grass. Can be used:
- wood ash;
- fluffy lime:
- dolomite flour.
The effect of fluff and dolomite flour on soil acidity is shown in the table.
| Name | Application rules, performance |
|---|---|
| Pushonka (slaked lime) | The best application effect is obtained on soils with high fertility, on which clay or loam prevails. The application rate is from 0,4 to 0,65 kg per square, depending on the acidity of the soil. No need to violate the rules for adding fluff to the ground. Excess drug will reduce the ability of plants to absorb potassium and phosphorus, because they will change their structure and become insoluble. |
| Dolomite flour (lime flour) | If the soils are light, sandy or lack magnesium, it is best to use dolomite flour, which will compensate for the deficiency of the trace element. It is necessary to add strictly according to the norm, depending on the quality of the soil from 0,35 to 0,6 kg per square meter. Dolomite flour should be finely ground. Potatoes and tomatoes respond well to it. |
Chemical effect on the weed
And now let’s talk about how to get rid of wood lice weed in the garden and vegetable garden, if neither mechanical, but agrotechnical methods, nor soil deoxidation reduce the number of plants on the site. In this case, chemistry comes to the rescue, drugs called herbicides.
Chemical production represents for summer residents a wide range of products designed specifically for the destruction of weeds in small areas.
You can use drugs allowed in Our Country:
- Roundup and Glyph;
- Glisolom and Zero;
- Tornado, Hurricane and Whirlwind.
Despite the different names, herbicides have the same ability to kill weeds.
Gardeners often ask the question of how to deal with weeds, including wood lice, using chemicals. Herbicidal attack on weeds is carried out with continuous growth of wood lice in places where cultivated plants do not grow. It is best to do this work after harvest.
If this is not possible, the plantings are protected with covering material and weeds are spotted, as shown in the photo.
As a rule, weeds treated with chemicals first turn yellow and then dry out. It is not necessary to clean the site before the complete death of the plants. Literally after 3-4 weeks, the preparations completely decompose, they do not accumulate in the soil.
Conclusion
The harm and benefits of the woodlice plant have merged. One of the ways to deal with it can be the use of a weed as a remedy and a product for making salads, vitamin tea.
We wish gardeners and gardeners a successful fight against any weeds, as well as wood lice, in order to obtain safe, environmentally friendly products from their plots.