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Help me kill this...please
I have this weed in my chile patch. It's shown up every year for quite a while and every year it's a little more invasive than the year before. I can cut it off pretty deep, several inches, and not hit its roots. I suspect there's a very deep runner or something and it sends up plants from there. Round-up (desperate here) seems to kill the particular plant but not the entire system and its mothership. It roughly radiates outward from a point slightly outside my property, on the other side of our fence.
I've never seen this before its first appearance in my garden. It's a toughie. https://imgur.com/a/X7O9a3Z |
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I have this weed in my chile patch. It's shown up every year for quite a while and every year it's a little more invasive than the year before. I can cut it off pretty deep, several inches, and not hit its roots. I suspect there's a very deep runner or something and it sends up plants from there. Round-up (desperate here) seems to kill the particular plant but not the entire system and its mothership. It roughly radiates outward from a point slightly outside my property, on the other side of our fence. I've never seen this before its first appearance in my garden. It's a toughie. https://imgur.com/a/X7O9a3Z if you are going to use roundup/glyphosate on it you want to use it when there are plenty of leaves and it is actively growing. if you don't want it to grow put a few layers of cardboard over it and put down a nice layer of wood- chips. not much can survive being smothered. if it doesn't get it all the first time rake back the woodchips and put down a few more layers of cardboard and replace the woodchips. can you approach the neighbor to see if you can remove it from the other side of the fence too? songbird |
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writes: I have this weed in my chile patch. It's shown up every year for quite a while and every year it's a little more invasive than the year before. I can cut it off pretty deep, several inches, and not hit its roots. I suspect there's a very deep runner or something and it sends up plants from there. Round-up (desperate here) seems to kill the particular plant but not the entire system and its mothership. It roughly radiates outward from a point slightly outside my property, on the other side of our fence. I've never seen this before its first appearance in my garden. It's a toughie. https://imgur.com/a/X7O9a3Z That appears to be a sort of bind weed (broad term) often called arrow leaf. And I agree it is tough. We have been managing it in our front bed for several years. Managing, because the root network is too deep to eracicate. The thing to understand about RoundUp is that it doesn't kill anything, immediately. It disrupts root mojo and sends plants into dormancy. If the plant has root stores OR a network to juicy brothers, the effect is limited. I deal with this constantly with creaping thistle and bermuda grass. -- Drew Lawson | Broke my mind | Had no spare | |
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Help me kill this...please
Thanks Drew. Yep, that looks like it. Seeds viable in soil for twenty years; what a doozy. I remember growing up on the Illinois/Iowa border and the AM radio station my grandparents listened to was in the Spring fueled by ads for seed and herbicide companies and they all mentioned bindweed in their pitch. (Dekalb XL! Dursban!) =8^)
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