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Yellow sorrel grows as an annual, but it happily and plentifully regenerates from seed each year, as the seed pods explode and fire seeds all around the garden.
Yellow sorrel, Oxalis corniculata, is a low, creeping weed that will happily grow anywhere - it's as happy in the bone-dry cracks in paving as it is in the damp garden and around the tops of containers. Although small, it's tricky to pull out and the roots usually stay where they are and it will regrow from them.
The best way to deal with yellow sorrel organically is to hoe it before it flowers and set seed, then remove it or leave it on soil surface on hot day to wither and die, to dig it out or smother it with mulch or a deep layer of soil. In lawns, vigorously rake the patch with a wire rake in mid-September to remove the worst of it.
visharsa 24/11/2011 at 15:29
I planted 2 hibiscus plants last autumn. We have a clay soil and I have read about "wet foot". The plants themselves look like dry sticks at the moment. Have I killed them?
sorry, this is the first time I have asked a question on this site and I obviously posted it in the wrong place!
