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Common purslane: weed it and eat it
This has been a big year for purslane at the UC Davis farm. Common purslane (Portulaca oleracea) is a succulent summer annual weed with fleshy leaves and rubbery-looking stems. Native to Eurasia, or maybe Africa, purslane arrived in the Americas with the first Europeans to settle here. It is a...
Brittle, easily broken stems help common purslane to spread (photo by Guy Kyser)
Left on the soil, purslane stem fragments form new roots (photo by Guy Kyser)
New weed in California – African spiderflower (Cleome gynandra)
Dr. Mohsen Mesgaran, who joined the Weed Science Group this year as our weed ecophysiologist, found this plant growing on the research farm at UC Davis. African spiderflower is a summer annual broadleaf plant in the caper family (Cleomaceae), growing up to 3 ft tall and wide. The flowers are...
Nice-looking, diffuse flowering heads which give the plant its common name
A single floret showing elongated stamens and pistil
FOUND: Japanese millet
This just in from the UC Rice blog (http://ucanr.org/blogs/riceblog/). The author is Luis Espino, UC Cooperative Extension Rice Farm Advisor in Colusa-Glenn-Yolo Counties. Japanese MilletAugust 26, 2013 Japanese millet is not a weed of rice in our area. However, a PCA recently...
Broadleaf weed control in cilantro
Cilantro was produced on 5,543 acres in Monterey and Ventura Counties in 2011. The production of cilantro has shifted to high density 80-inch wide beds and a large proportion is now mechanically harvested. Hand weeding high density beds is very expensive and reduces the economic viability of this...
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weed control in cilantro
Video on Alternative Cultivators available
A video entitled, "Alternative Cultivators for Organic Vegetable Production" is now available on YouTube. The video was produced by Aaron Heinrich and Richard Smith and presents information on new developments in automated weed control technology and research information on blind...
