How To Get Horseradish From The Garden

Horseradish is one of the most popular crops and is cultivated in the garden of almost every summer resident. This plant is quite unpretentious and frost-resistant, which provides it with good survivability. However, horseradish has an amazing ability to fill the entire plot. This usually happens if, during harvesting of its roots, small processes and parts of the rhizome remain in the ground. If your garden is clogged with new horseradish bushes every year, urgent measures must be taken to eradicate it.

You will need

• Pitchfork
• Roofing material
• Black plastic bags
• Herbicides
• Long knitting needle
• Secateurs
• Potash or salt
• Perennial seeds

How To Get Horseradish From The Garden

1. This can be done by removing its roots from the ground. However, you should not use a shovel to dig up the site, since its sharp edges will crush the rhizome, and the plant will appear again. To thoroughly clean the garden, take a digging pitchfork. Stick them into the location of the horseradish roots and pull the bush out of the soil. Carry out this procedure in the spring , when the horseradish leaves only appear, and the ground is quite wet and loose. Digging should be done regularly as new sprouts come out. This method is aimed at the gradual depletion of the horseradish rhizome and its subsequent death.
2. A sufficiently reliable method of combating horseradish is the light insulation of young shoots of the plant. To do this, in early spring tightly cover the areas filled with horseradish, lightproof material. You can use roofing material or large plastic bags in black. Devoid of solar energy horseradish dies pretty quickly. The bulk of the bushes will disappear within one summer season.
3. You can deal with unwanted plantings using chemicals. Cut the leaves of horseradish with a secateurs and make a deep hole in its root with a long sharp needle. Fill the space inside the rhizome with a concentrated herbicide solution (for example, roundup ) that will destroy the plant. No less effective means in removing horseradish are ammonium nitrate , potassium and salt. Put 10-15 g of the substance on the cut part of the horseradish, and the bush will begin to die.
4. If you need to get rid of horseradish a very large area, sow it with perennial grass (clover or alfalfa are perfect ). It will create a good shade that does not tolerate horseradish. Most of its seedlings will disappear on their own, manually remove the sprouted bushes using a pitchfork.