Getting rid of purslane weeds in the garden?

Dan Gill’s, LSU AgCenter, recommendations.

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When you can’t spray for the reason you mentioned, some will mix the solution herbicide, then put on a plastic glove and a cotton glove over the plastic glove, then dip glove in to the herbicide solution and then just swipe the weed with the herbicide-soaked glove.

Or alternatively fashion a cone or funnel of some sort, for example, remove the bottom from a 1 gallon milk container, and then cover the weed with the “cone”, and then stick the spray nozzle into the open end of the cone and spray. That will prevent the herbicide from contacting your tomato plants.

Both methods work, but honestly i have had the same problem with purslane in my raised vegetable beds and just it find as easy to pull it, but my beds are not particularly large. This year I did use a thick layer of chopped tree leaves, couple inches thick, as mulch (as opposed to pine straw) and I’m not having a purslane problem as in years past.

Going forward consider using a thick layer of mulch and see how that works.

Alternatively, you could just get you a paint brush and brush the solution on the weed.

My wife already calls me obsessive with my vegetable garden.

If she sees me out there with a paint brush, painting weeds she'll likely have me committed.

I knew a man with a zoysia lawn that would use a paintbrush to brush Roundup onto the common bermuda that would spring up in spots.

Hmm. You can eat that shite?

Yes its purslane.

What's it taste like?

Do you just eat the leaves or the stems too?

I had to sell my house to get rid of it! It was only in the flower bed by the mailbox but it drove me nuts.

They flower like crazy here in North Texas. Big fan.