Buff Gardeners
This group is intended for those who enjoy the natural aspect of gardening, and don't feel the need to cover their natural state while tending their plants. This group may be used to exchange ideas, and success stories, and of course...recipes, that have been brought fourth from the earth.
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eradicated!
Return to DiscussionsGarlic mustard is an invasive weed that has neither the desirable traits of garlic or mustard. It used to grow rampant around my 1 acre yard which borders on woods and a ditch. This year I realized that it did not pop up and bloom early spring like it used to. I guess my vigilant pulling it and tossing it on the burn pile paid off.
Now if I could get rid of the bird spread poison ivy the same way. Or do you think there would be a market for poison ivy wreathes ( for those you hate) like the popular grape vine wreathes from years ago?
I have a little under 4 acres and have eliminated the towering poison ivy vines that had been climbing every tree, and before I leave this planet I will reach poison ivy free but when I first bought the place and started to tackle that problem I would have nightmares about poison ivy at night. Congrats on your success!
garlic mustard is an edible weed. So I'd don't fight it, I can eat it if I run out of other food. poison ivy is an inert weed, to me, not to many though. Although I wouldn't go so far as to eat it, at least it seems to do me no harm externally. I would love to eradicate thorns, but the plants they grow on have good uses for food and utility use, so I guess I have to just live with the thorns till heaven comes my way.