Sorrel/sour grass
- Subject: Sorrel/sour grass
- From: S* S*
- Date: Wed, 5 Jun 2002 08:35:20 -0700
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- Thread-topic: Revisiting vinegar for weed control
What does the leaf on this weed look like? I have a weed that I am finding nearly impossible to eradicate and no one seems to be able to identify it for me, but it has white roots that spread all over like you describe.
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From: ECPep@aol.com [E*@aol.com]
Sent: Tuesday, June 04, 2002 6:46 PM
To: perennials@hort.net
Subject: Re: Revisiting vinegar for weed control
In a message dated 6/4/02 5:57:06 PM Eastern Daylight Time,
cherylisaak@adelphia.net writes:
<< I have had mixed results - I found sorrel ( my biggest problem ) >>
Cheryl, sorrel, or sourgrass - is it a weed that has long thin white roots
running underground and popping up new plants where you break the root -
comes up all summer?
I had a visitor last summer who ID'd this "sourgrass" and said it was good to
eat. I think it is a chenopodium related to another bummer called "Good King
Henry" and in most herbals.
If we have the same weedy plant, it is a native of acidic soils and you only
helped it along. The plant is killed by liming the area where you want it
gone, say a planned vegetable bed. My visitor thought it good stuff for some
kind of soup and added it is an indicator plant of acid soils. It must have
loved the vinegar fix.
Claire Peplowski
NYS z4
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