I second Val's suggestion of layering with newspaper or escalating to
cardboard. Ya-shur, it's a pretty good deal.

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"Val" wrote:

Wild garlic is one of the "cockroaches" of the weed world, even more
invasive than wild onion. The weed cloth allows light to pass through,
that's why the garlic isn't slowing down. Pulling and digging only
encourages division of the bulbs. A thick mulch of newspaper over a period
of time will eventually get rid of it but it's most likely not going to
happen in a few years. All you can do with that growing in the lawn is to
keep it cut as low to the ground as possible and over, again, a period of
time it will eventually weaken the plant enough to die off. Wild garlic is
tougher than wild onion to eradicate since the garlic spreads by both seed
and bulb division. If you don't want to bring out the big guns and use an
herbicide you have your work cut out for you for quite a few years to come.
Carry with you always an old pair of scissors when in the garden and when
you see the tell tale signs emerging from the soil or lawn CUT them off at
below ground level. Squelch the urge to pull them out and never let it go
long enough to flower. Think of it as a quest.

Val

"TiredGardener" wrote in message
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I have wild garlic all over my yard. In the grass, tangled in with my
tulips and daffs, around the roses, in the side walk. Literally
everywhere it can grow. Pulling it up is not working, and from what
I'm reading, it usually doesn't. Roundup is supposed to work, but I
prefer a more environmentally friendly option.

Around the roses I put down a weed barrier and some mulch over that.
It went through the water holes in the barrier and is just as strong.
At least the other weeds are gone. I can't do that in the yard, even
if it worked for the roses.

As for eating it, I prefer to eat the ones that I grow just for that
purpose, I want to have a pretty yard as well.

Anyone have any good ideas?

Thanks,

Jason

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