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- From: bobw@csg.uwaterloo.ca (Bob Wildfong)
- Subject: Re: horseradish
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- Organization: Computer Systems Group, University of Waterloo
- References: <1992Nov13.195735.26331@math.ucla.edu>
- Date: Mon, 16 Nov 1992 16:46:18 GMT
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- In article <1992Nov13.195735.26331@math.ucla.edu> ramirez@julia.math.ucla.edu (Alice Ramirez) writes:
- >I think horseradish must be one of those plants that in some locales
- >turns into a rampant weed and in other places struggles along. I have
- >heard that horseradish can be QUITE invasive, but you'd never know it from
- >my garden. Here on my "homestead" in ol' La-La Land it has stayed the
- >same size for about 5 years, putting out green leaves part of the year,
- >then dying back to the roots for a few months. It may have gotten slightly
- >bigger, but has not spread in any outrageous way the way my horehound
- >has done, or those horrid wild passionfruit weeds (P. caerulia).
-
- My experience with horseradish (3 different sites) has been that it doesn't
- spread outward very fast, but it does root quickly and it's very difficult
- to remove. I'd call it "permanent", but not "invasive".
-
- P.S. My horehound spreads outrageously too. I wanted a half-row of it but only
- had three little plants. It only took one year to get my half-row (20 feet).
-
- Bob Wildfong bobw@csg.uwaterloo.ca
- Waterloo, Ontario bobw@csg.waterloo.edu
- AgCan zone 5a, USDA zone 4 (on a windy hilltop)
-
- Success in gardening is finding the right
- balance between tolerance and defiance.
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