down in jungleland
Once upon a time there was a little green shoot.
'Look, horseradish' said the naive boy. 'How lucky I am'!
Several years later it had turned into a dense jungle that could not be eradicated by digging out. No matter how hard the boy tried. No sir!
'Roundup' said a gruff voice.
But the naive boy said 'No'!
'No, glyphosate' said another voice. But the naive boy said 'No'!.
He chopped off all the leaves and then covered the area with two thicknesses of plastic weighted with wood and heavy buckets.
'Lack of light will kill the horrid horseradish' he said. 'I truly believe in organic methods'. And he put a photo on his blog so the world could see whether he was truly naive or that organic methods worked.
4 comments:
Very difficult to get rid of horseradish! I have several areas but it is a constant battle because the roots go so deep.
You're right. The persistent and deep-rooted weeds are the most difficult to eradicate by organic methods alone.
Horseradish sounds really difficult to do away with! I would hope that your smothering method will eventually work -- wouldn't the roots eventually decompose?
There's an (uninteresting) patch in our Ethnobotany garden that is flourishing (and I never know how to interpret it), but I think it's confined by the bed. Few American children have any connection with horseradish, as far as I can tell....did you actually ever use much of it?
Wish we had some of your rain here!
Horseradish is used in British and Japanese cuisine.
In Britain, it is used grated and served in a cream sauce as an accompaniment to beef.
It is fiery. Haven't made much use of it since I moved to the veggie side!
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