Fight ground elder with potatoes

How do potatoes affect the weeds?

You can fight ground elder with potatoes if you have this weed in your own garden and find it annoying. Potatoes have long been known as weed suppressants by many gardeners. They can also be very helpful with the Giersch if it proliferates without being asked.

Why does it work? The reasons are the good assertiveness of the potatoes and the resilience of the ground elder. The potatoes shade the ground with their large and dense foliage. They act as ground cover and take away the light of the ground grass. In addition, they rob the weeds of water and nutrients from the soil.

So that the ground elder gives up soon, you should proceed as follows when fighting with potatoes:

• Remove groundwater z. B. with hook, spade, Etc.
• never let the groundweed come to flower
• Loosen up the earth
• Plant potatoes
• Result: Giersch is 'starved' - greed-free zone
• regular follow-up checks

Collect and eat the ground elder - together with potatoes!

That you can Eat ground elder can, very few know. It can serve not only as food for the poor, but also as a new, interesting culinary specialty. Both the young and the older leaves, flowers and fruits are suitable for this.

Giersch and potatoes go well together. The reason: When raw, ground grass is reminiscent of parsley and carrots in taste. When cooked, groundgrass tastes like spinach. Both variants go well with boiled potatoes. The plant is not only tasty, but also tasty healthy!

Here are a few ideas for groundgrass with potatoes:

• finely chopped on jacket potatoes
• in potato salad
• in the potato casserole
• in a potato soup
• Ground herb quark with potatoes
• the seeds as a spice for a hot salad dressing