Down on the allotment today I was rather suprised to see that everying seems to have doubled in size from yesterday. The most suprising thing, though, was the spinach - which had started to flower.
So up comes all the spinach - 1.2kg of leaf (once the stems and roots had been removed) from a 2.5m2 bed and my problem of where to put the extra tomato plants is solved.
I’ve just eaten some of the spinach (the rest is frozen), wilted in some butter and garlic - lovely.
Written by exmonkey on June 4th, 2006 with no comments.
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I don’t know if we are winning the battle, but I have noticed one thing that makes me feel encouraged.
Although our main strategy has been to dig out as many of the roots as possible, inevitably new shoots appear and grow rapidly all over the newly dug beds. So our ongoing solution is simply to pinch the tops off them as they appear (time consuming I know, plus it has the unfortunate side effect that when I close my eyes at night all I see is horsetail!). What I have noticed, though, is that when I pull at a shoot that the pinched off plant send up a couple of days later, the tap root will normally come with it. This leads me to suspect that pinching off the above ground portion of the plant seriously weakens the roots.
I reckon another two years of crawling around pulling out horsetail stems and I may have it under control.
Written by exmonkey on June 1st, 2006 with 1 comment.
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