Wild growth (horticulture)
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In horticulture, wild growth describes the disordered growth of plants that is not influenced by humans. In the case of edibility, one also speaks of wild herbs.
Definition
Uncontrolled growth of plants, such as nettles , ground elder , dandelions or thistles , in gardens or in the wild is referred to as wild growth . These plants are sometimes able to "grow on the tree slice between garbage and granulate residues, on compacted soil, half-corroded by dog urine", to bloom there and produce fruits, the seeds of which will germinate again on the inhospitable ground in the coming spring .
The term weeds should be distinguished from wild growth. Weeds are wild plants that are generally not wanted in the home garden. As wild vegetables or wild herb is known, however wild, annual or perennial plants that are edible.
There are efforts to encourage the uncontrolled growth of rare plants.
Wild growth in religion
The wild herbs , which were collected as culinary and medicinal herbs, were viewed in Israel as a gift from God ( Ps 104,14 EU ), their growth depended on the rain. In the desert, too, the Israelites ate herbs that they gathered on the way. The bitter herbs that grow in the desert and are eaten as a salad at a young age symbolize the bitter life of the ancestors who worked as slaves in Egypt during the Passover celebration .
See also
- Lead weeds
- Wild vegetables (with a "list of known wild herbs and vegetables")
- Wild fruits
- Energy plant
- Plants in the Bible
literature
- Horst Klaaßen, Joachim Freitag: Recognize arable weeds and grass grasses in good time. Landwirtschaftsverlag, Münster-Hiltrup 2004 ISBN 3-7843-3280-3
- Alexandra Sabine Wening: Possibilities of biological weed control in integrated and organic farming. Knowledge, problems, recommendations. University of Giessen, Giessen 2007 (Bachelor thesis, as digital copy )
- Arbeitsgemeinschaft Freiraum und Vegetation (Ed.): Krautern mit Wekraut. Kassel 1986 (Notebook of the Kasseler Schule, Vol. 2), table of contents with the possibility of downloading the individual articles as PDF files
- Arbeitsgemeinschaft Freiraum und Vegetation (Ed.): Care without hoe and herbicide. Kassel 1990 (notebook of the Kassel school, vol. 17)
Web links
- STADT / 317: “Urban Green - More Wild Growth!” (BUNDmagazin), www.schattenblick.de
- www.2 Pflanzenfreunde.de
- Advice and information for the southern German sugar beet cultivation: Weed identification - online
- Bochum Botanical Association: Field weeds in North Rhine-Westphalia
- Botanical Garden of the Ruhr University Bochum: Field weeds of North Rhine-Westphalia ( Memento from November 30, 2005 in the Internet Archive )
- Rod Randall's Global Compendium of Weeds (over 28,000 names)
- Herbology working group of the German Phytomedical Society eV