Unusual portulac plant is quite common in gardens and gardens. It is also called suckling, butterlak, chicken leg. Once on the site, he causes the owners a lot of trouble, as it spreads quickly throughout the territory, and its germination can compete with shchirey, prairie and other pesky weeds. Therefore, the fight against the purslane gardening will require the gardener to know how to get it out as soon as possible.
Did you know? Despite the fact that the grass is considered weedy, it has been known for its unique medicinal properties since the days of Haen and Hippocrates.
What does a garden purslane look like
Weed purslane - annual culture of the portulac family. A characteristic feature are thick, fleshy, wax-like leaves, oval-shaped, bright green. The stems have a brown-red color, grow to 35-40 cm in height.
Portulaca flowers are small, inconspicuous, located at the base of the twigs and leaves. Appear in early June. Flowering continues until the end of the summer season. The fruit of the plant reaches no more than 8 mm in length.
Portulac is a weed that lives not only in the garden, but also in ditches, forest belts, along the tracks, on the fields and banks of reservoirs. At the same time, he is very light-loving, taking root on poor soils.
Mechanical methods of struggle
The most important thing in the fight against this weed is to notice its appearance on the site in time.
Regular weeding beds
Weeding plot - the most time-consuming, difficult, but at the same time, the most environmentally friendly way to cultivate land from purslane.
It is necessary to begin works as soon as the weed appeared on a personal plot. It is advisable to hold them manually. The grass must always be pulled up by the roots and dropped on a heap in a sunny place so that it dries quickly and cannot damage the garden crops again. 
Important! When weeding, it is impossible to use various agricultural tools (cultivator, shears, chopper, etc.), because the parts of the weed left in the ground quickly root and begin to grow with double strength.
Soil mulching
An excellent solution to the problem of how to get rid of portulaca in the garden will be soil mulching. To do this, you can use straw, hay, peat, sawdust and other materials for mulch.
In addition, such mulching will not only help get rid of the weed, but it will be useful for vegetable crops in the garden beds.
Important! The layer of mulch should be at least 3-5 cm.
Digging the bed
Digging up the soil is used in combination with other methods of weed control. Its effectiveness is due to the fact that the seeds can germinate only if they are shallow in the soil (1.5-2 cm). With a deeper occurrence, the likelihood that grass will appear on the plot is extremely small.
Herbicide Fighting
The appearance of the garden purslane forces the gardener to decide what to spray a weed to get rid of it as soon as possible.
Chemicals are used in the fall, after harvest. The most effective solution has "Roundup" with other herbicides (for example, "Octigen", "Piraminom", "Lazurit"). First, Roundup is added to the water, and then the second drug. Apply doses recommended in the instructions for these substances. Carefully spray the beds.
Did you know? If less than 10 hours after the procedure, precipitations have passed, the spraying will have to be repeated, as the rain will wash away the chemicals.The purslane will disappear after one or two weeks when fighting with herbicides.
Emergency watering
Experienced gardeners recommend 7-10 days before the emergence of shoots on the spot, chosen by purslane, to conduct emergency watering.
The territory is dug up, plentifully watered at least once a day. Approximately in 5-7 days mass grass shoots will seem. It must be carefully collected by hand, leaving no plant residues, and removed from the garden.
When portulaca appears on the plot, each gardener independently decides how to deal with the weed, but experts advise to approach the problem in a comprehensive manner, that is, to apply both agrotechnical methods and special chemical preparations.
