Re: My vote for weed of the century!
Hi Susan
Oxalis pes-caprae is also my candidate for weed of the century.
I think here it was either an unfortunate escapee or an imported error. But
it is a terrible pest here in our low orange growing plain.
We strim the tops and put them on the compost heap, and find that we can
keep it down (a bit) by regularly disturbing it.
Always look on the bright side though - it goes dormant in the summer!!
regards Janet B
Janet & Richard Blenkinship
Crete zone 9/10
'What is this life if, full of care
we have no time to stand and stare' William Henry Davies
----- Original Message -----
From: Susan George <susan_c_george@hotmail.com>
To: <Deborah.Lindsay@kaiseral.com>; <medit-plants@ucdavis.edu>
Sent: Wednesday, January 12, 2000 4:30 AM
Subject: My vote for weed of the century!
>
> >Just at the moment (for Central Coastal California)I would vote for....
> >Oxalis pes-caprae. Whimper.
> >
> >Deborah Lindsay
> >
>
> Absolutly - I am part of a coastal revegetation project and almost
> everything else that I have come across can be removed - wandering jew,
> blackberries, cotoneaster, climbing dock, boneseed, thistles of all types
> .... the list goes on - we have even had success with kikuyu - but not
> oxalis pes-caprae
>
> Susan George
> McCrae, Victoria, Australia
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