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  • From: Charlie Cameron <cc77380 AT yahoo.com>
  • To: Market Farming <market-farming AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [Market-farming] Effective control of Galinsoga
  • Date: Sun, 23 Oct 2011 20:52:49 -0500

What does. Galinosa weed look like

Steve Gilman <stevegilman AT verizon.net> wrote:

>Andy -- my commiserations -- what a scourge!
>
>Galinsoga is truly a zero tolerance weed for growers and this has to be
>impressed on farm workers. In my experience cultivation doesn't work -- it
>needs to be ripped out by all its (dense and greedy) root system -- and
>completely removed, not composted -- preferably hung out to bake in the sun
>on a shrub or such. Left to lay on the ground it readily re-roots and it's
>innocuous little-daisy-type flowers are a copious seed producer -- with long
>term seed germination viability in the soil. And it's a very greedy heavy
>feeder -- robbing crops of nutrients.
>
>Plastic might help, as long as you can keep the sides and planting holes
>clean. Stale seedbed works when they're very small. When they're bigger
>scheduling worktime blocks dedicated to search and destroy has real
>payoffs...
>
>best,
>Steve
>On Oct 23, 2011, at 12:00 PM, market-farming-request AT lists.ibiblio.org wrote:
>
>> Message: 4
>> Date: Sat, 22 Oct 2011 20:11:18 -0400
>> From: Andy Fellenz <artisanfarms AT gmail.com>
>> Subject: [Market-farming] Effective control of Galinsoga
>> To: Market Farming <market-farming AT lists.ibiblio.org>
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>> For the first time ever I had a real problem with Galinsoga this season.
>> Both became established in several beds and the Galinsoga is also getting
>> well established in one of the high tunnels. Is it possible that the
>> galinsoga could have hitchhiked in on peat moss? The reason I ask is that
>> we spread several bales of peat in the high tunnel and within days of
>> spreading the peat had an infestation of galinsoga. Out in the field, my
>> guess is that it came in with a mulch hay I used this season as it was
>> heaviest in areas where the first planting had been mulched. I cultivated
>> with a hoe and it seemed that for every cultivation I ended up with a new
>> bed of the galinsoga.
>>
>> I'm certified organic, so am limited in what I can do to manage these
>> weeds,
>> but I'm curious as to what others have tried that has worked in managing
>> them. For years my worst problem was pigweed, but the galinsoga makes the
>> pigweed look easy to manage.
>>
>> All ideas are welcome as I'd like to get this under control early next
>> season rather than dealing with it all year.
>>
>> Andy
>
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