Medium stellate: to fight or take it as a medicine?

A small plant with cute white flowers and a fragile stem you can hardly call a weed. But as soon as you are faced with uprooting this inappropriate neighbor of your plantings, you will immediately understand what the whole power of the plant is in the root power. This is an average starfish, which is now so popular in vegetable gardens as a pest and the fight against it continues everywhere.

The average starwort usually grows on moist soil: that is, in a naturally humid climate or in vegetable gardens that are watered frequently and abundantly. What is the threat of starfish? Just one plant can give birth to about fifteen thousand seeds in 3 years, which means that if you don't fight with it, then it can fill your entire garden and even your neighbor's garden to boot.

Fighting the traditional chopping up of the plant is useless - every piece will take root and grow with joy. It is important here either to come up with an effective way of dealing with it, or simply to treat the problem differently.
Ways to deal with starworm:

  • For small volumes - weeding.
  • Cover the soil with organic mulch about 5 cm thick.
  • Carry out soil solarization: cover the soil prepared for planting with polyethylene and under the influence of the sun and high temperature all weed seeds will burn.
  • If the weeds are already overgrown, cover them with a dark film. Then they will have a lack of light and excess heat, as a result, the plants will die.

If all else fails, then change your attitude towards this issue. Just remember that stellate is an excellent remedy for gastrointestinal diseases, bladder problems, a medicine for pneumonia, constipation, hemorrhoids, coughs and hepatitis. And all this national pharmacy grows in your garden - so let the difficult moments grow and help you.