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It is very difficult to get rid of rose hips on your property forever: the plant is very resilient. If you leave at least one root of the bush, the crop will survive. This feature of the plant forces gardeners to look for effective destruction measures.
How and with what to get rid of rose hips on a summer cottage, cemetery forever
Most often, the plant grows in vegetable gardens, where the owners pay insufficient attention to caring for the bush.
They usually encounter a problem in cemeteries, where crops planted for decorative purposes tend to occupy all the available space.
You can eradicate rose hips on a site using various methods; if necessary, they can be easily combined.
Nuances of the destruction of culture:
- The optimal time to start the procedure is spring and summer, when sap flow in the trunks is active. Getting rid of the crop in winter is problematic, since it is dormant and the roots are protected by snow.
- Chemicals not only destroy the bush forever, but also harm the soil.
- Herbicides are dangerous not only for crops, but also for people, insects and birds. They cannot be used near bodies of water on the site. The use of protective equipment is mandatory.
Herbicides
In order to permanently get rid of a crop on a site using this method, it should be taken into account that chemicals are destructive not only for rose hips, but also for the soil of nearby plantings.
You can get rid of rose hips in your dacha in the following ways:
- Sodium nitrate is applied to the trunk and the ground around it. To do this, the mixture must be dissolved in water. The results will be noticeable within a year. To speed up the process, you can create an artificial hollow in the trunk to pour a solution of nitrate into it.
- Using herbicides Arsenal, Tornado or Roundup. The products have a general operating principle. In order to destroy rosehip thickets, you need to dilute the substances according to the instructions in water and pour the prepared solution over the bush, including foliage and stems. It is recommended to make cuts and holes in the bark to quickly get rid of the plant forever.
- The use of ammonium nitrate is effective. If you water the bush throughout the growing season, the roots will turn into dust.
To enhance the effect of chemicals, you need to add 50-150 ml of any edible oil to the prepared solution
Folk remedies
Among the folk methods that allow you to remove rose hips from the garden forever, you can use the following methods:
- If you need to destroy a heavily overgrown crop, you should pay attention to a saline solution. To do this, the substance is dissolved in water in a 1:1 ratio. It is necessary to water the bush with the resulting product until the rose hips can be removed. The advantage is that the method is environmentally friendly: within several years after the procedure, soil fertility is restored.
- Mulching allows you to fight rose hips on the site if the bush is young. The method involves grinding herbs such as wormwood, mint and celandine and mixing them with others. The resulting mulch should be poured to a height of 0.5 m to limit the supply of oxygen to the root system. Abundantly released substances and heat will help get rid of the plant.
It will be effective to cover the roots by digging around the tree trunk, building a trench to a depth of 50-70 cm, and filling the resulting hole with concrete.
After the procedure, the roots and stump can be left in place, cutting off the above-ground part to ground level, or they can be destroyed as much as possible in order to quickly get rid of the crop on the site.
Mechanical methods
The methods are highly effective, but to remove a rosehip bush forever, you will have to spend a lot of physical effort.
Mechanical methods:
- Belt. Make deep cuts on the trunk of the plant, up to 5-6 cm deep, up to 30 cm wide. The exposed wood will attract the attention of insects, and the damage will weaken the bush, which will lead to its death.
- Using copper nails. They need to be driven into the trunk to poison the plant with copper oxides.
- Drilling holes in the trunk will weaken the bush and leave it defenseless against pests. If you choose a drill with a small diameter, the holes will be less noticeable.
The most energy-intensive way to permanently remove rosehip roots is to uproot them. The above-ground part and all the growth should be destroyed, and then the crop should be removed from the ground. To achieve the result, it is necessary to completely remove the bush. If you leave the shoots, you won’t be able to get rid of the rosehip forever: it will sprout new growth on the site next year.
Conclusion
You can get rid of rose hips on your property forever using a variety of methods. You should take into account your capabilities, soil characteristics, and the availability of available tools or preparations. Each of the methods at different speeds dooms the shrub to death forever, since the result will depend on the quality of the work done and the power of the root system.
The rosehip grows on the neighboring plot, right next to our mesh fence. He always climbs into our area where peonies grow. Neighbors don't want to remove it. What can you spray to make it die?