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Sosnowski's hogweed. We didn't hear about it before, and we didn't know it existed.
It is an invasive plant from somewhere in the Caucasus Mountains, where botanist Dmitry Sosnovsky found it and described it.
Then, according to one version, they decided to use hogweed in agriculture, growing it with a livestock silo. It turned out that you can't do that. Cows stopped giving birth, and milk acquired ugly taste.
This idea was abandoned, and hogweed reproduced perfectly and spread throughout the country. I even saw him on the White Sea, on Cape Ship.
I'd grow up like lupines. They're aliens too.
But the fact is that Sosnovsky hogweed juice is dangerous to health. When it gets on the skin, it leaves real burns that are difficult to treat and leave terrible scars. In this case, the juice acts like this if light comes on it. For some reason, many people don't know this, manage to climb into the hogweed thicket and get injured.
Now, the authorities have passed a law on fines for owners of hogweed land. But where else can I find that owner? As long as they scratch, they'll grow everything and reach our property.
Hogweed has a lifespan of about three years. In the third year, it blooms, gives seeds, and the mother's dissection dies.
If you remove the flower stalk too early, the plant will give side growth and grow more flower stalks. This can go on indefinitely. Therefore, the seed umbrellas should be removed before the seeds ripen, considering that they can ripen on the ground when cut off. We were packing all the umbrellas in a bag. Then we'll leave them there to sprinkle in the sun and rot.
Of course, it makes sense to do so if there are not many plants. In other cases, poison with special drugs, mow, plow, cover the ground with film, and monitor the area for years. Hogweed seeds have a germination of 5-7 years and do not germinate all at once in the first year.
And if even one plant remains alive, all efforts were in vain. Hogweed breeds rapidly and inevitably.
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