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Getting Rid of Queen Anne's Lace
FragileWarrior wrote:
zxcvbob wrote in : FragileWarrior wrote: zxcvbob wrote in : FragileWarrior wrote: [..] Wait a minute... QAL and carrots are the same thing????? Not quite, but close enough. (QAL roots are white.) Bob Parsnips? Not parsnips. (parsnips have yellow flowers) They are carrots, but the roots are white. If you plant carrots in the flowerbed, you get QAL -- but they might grow almost 6 feet tall if you water them (don't ask me how I know this) Bob COOOOOOOL! Tomorrow I shall be planting some carrots in my garden. It'll probably work better in the spring, but go for it. :-) Best regards, Bob |
Getting Rid of Queen Anne's Lace
Matthew Reed wrote:
"FragileWarrior" wrote in message ... "Matthew Reed" nospam at zootal dot com nospam wrote in : http://zootal.no-ip.info/stuff/2006%...images/DSCF415 1.jpg That's lovely. How do they propagate -- seeds? tubers? I'd love some in my wildflower garden. How come plants never seem to grow rogue in the gardens of those who would welcome them? They propagate like seeds, like a carrot. They are supposed to be perrenials, but my observations make me think they might be annuals - IE they bloom the first year when planted from seeds. I'm going to save the seeds from mine and plant a few next year and see how they do. From what I can tell, they grow both from seeds and a thick strangling mat of creeping roots. They spread like wild and you can't kill them with a stick. I know my battle is futile because a huge batch grows on the other side of the fence from the batch I'm trying to eliminate. A few years back, a lady who wanted a wildflower garden there cut, dug, beat, burned, and poisoned the lot of them. They were sickly for about a year, then came back stronger than ever. Once mine are gone, IF EVER, I will have to watch those on the other side of the fence and cut them the minute they show signs of going to seed, and even then I'm afraid the roots may creep under the fence the minute I turn my back. Digging thins them temporarily, but in a year or two they are as thick as ever. It's bound to be an ongoing battle, but I'd like to give some other things a chance, being as along that fence is about the ONLY area of the yard with ANY sun. A lady from a nursery was over Sunday and said Roundup will harm my lilac, raspberries, roses, and two other bushes I want but don't know the names of, so the plants around those will have to be either dug, or poisoned with EXTREME care. The poison seems to "take" better the more of the plant foliage is above ground to poison, so I've stopped mowing them. She also said that pre-emergent in the spring is a good idea, so I will plan on removing all the other plants that will (be small enough to remove), poisoning what can be safely done, digging the rest, then using the pre-emergent in the spring before replacing the other plants. Cori |
Getting Rid of Queen Anne's Lace
Matthew Reed wrote:
QAL aka The Wild Carrot aka Daucus Carota is a wild carrot, not the same thing as a domesticated carrot, but a cousin. Here in Oregon it's classified as a class C noxious weed. They are everywhere, but I've not noticed them being that noxious. Maybe if I was a farmer I'd feel otherwise :-P. They don't get very big unless you water them, like I did to a couple - then they get huge. There are a rather pretty wildflower, IMNSHO. It's edible when young, but I don't recommend eating it because there are other similar plants that are poisonous. You might end up eating hemlock by mistake. They're not too hard to identify. If you look carefully, QAL has the one purple (or black) flower in the center of the flower head. Water-Hemlock is all white, and it grows mostly in marshy ground. If you want confusing, talk about making hemlock tea... In the PNW thats made from the hemlock tree, and its unfortunately (and confusingly) named. |
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