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It is very difficult to get rid of the rose hips on the site forever: the plant is distinguished by its great vitality. If you leave at least one bush root, the culture will survive. This feature of the plant compels gardeners to look for effective control measures.
How and how to get rid of rose hips at their summer cottage, cemetery forever
Most often, the plant grows in vegetable gardens, where the owners pay insufficient attention to caring for the shrub.
They usually face a problem in cemeteries, where a culture planted for decorative purposes seeks to occupy all the free space.
You can etch rose hips on the site using various methods, if necessary, they can be easily combined.
Nuances of destruction of culture:
- The optimal time to start the procedure is spring and summer, when the sap flow in the trunks is active. Getting rid of the culture in winter is problematic, since it is in hibernation, and the roots are protected by snow.
- Chemicals destroy not only 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 the culture on the site in this way, it should be borne in mind that chemical preparations are destructive not only for the rosehip, but also for the soil, adjacent plantings.
You can get rid of rose hips in the country in the following ways:
- Sodium nitrate is applied to the trunk and the ground around it. For this, the mixture must be dissolved in water. The results will be visible in a year. To speed up the process, you can create an artificial hollow in the trunk in order to pour a solution of saltpeter into it.
- Use of Arsenal, Tornado or Roundup herbicides. The funds have a general principle of action. In order to destroy the rosehip thickets, you need to dilute the substances according to the instructions in water and pour the bush, including foliage and stems, with a ready-made solution. It is recommended to make cuts and holes in the bark in order to quickly get rid of the plant permanently.
- The use of ammonium nitrate is effective. If you water the shrub during the entire 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 ready-made solution.
Folk remedies
Among the folk methods that allow you to remove the rose hips from the garden forever, you can use the following methods:
- If you want to destroy a heavily overgrown culture, then you should pay attention to the saline solution. To do this, dissolve the substance in water in a ratio of 1: 1. It is necessary to water the bush with the resulting product until it is possible to remove the rose hips. The advantage is the environmental friendliness of the method: within a few years after the procedure, the soil fertility is restored.
- Mulching allows you to deal with rose hips on the site if the shrub is young. The method consists in grinding herbs such as wormwood, mint and celandine, mixing them with others. The resulting mulch should be dumped to a height of 0.5 m in order to limit the supply of oxygen to the root system. The abundant substances and warmth will help get rid of the plant.
It will be effective to pave the roots - to dig in a near-trunk circle, build a trench to a depth of 50-70 cm, and fill the resulting hole with concrete.
After the procedure, the roots and stump can be left in place by cutting off the aerial part to the ground level, or destroyed as much as possible in order to quickly get rid of the culture on the site.
Mechanical methods
The effectiveness of the methods is high, but in order to remove the rose hip bush forever, you will have to spend a lot of physical strength.
Mechanical methods:
- Belt. On the trunk of the plant, make deep cuts, up to 5-6 cm in depth, up to 30 cm wide. Naked wood will attract the attention of insects, and damage will weaken the shrub, 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 shrub, leaving it defenseless against pests. If you choose a small-diameter drill, the holes will be invisible.
The most energy-intensive way to permanently remove rosehip roots is to uproot them. The aboveground part and all the growth should be destroyed, and then the culture should be removed from the ground. To achieve the result, you must completely remove the bush. If you leave the shoots, then you will not be able to get rid of the wild rose forever: it will give shoots on the site next year.
Conclusion
You can get rid of rose hips on the site forever by various methods. You should take into account your capabilities, soil characteristics, the availability of available tools or preparations. Each of the methods dooms the shrub to death at different rates forever, since the result will depend on the quality of the work done, the power of the root system.
