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garlic mustard
I have a lot of wild garlic mustard plants growing in my yard.I let them grow till the flowers fade then I pull them up. i get them every spring,after that its a little tough keepingthings growing inthose spots. those spots are under a group of 13 tulip poplar trees. does recomend something that would grow well in the same spot with flowers and about a foot or two tall and bloom in late summer or fall. still working on that engish garden.
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garlic mustard
"greengrass" wrote in message ... I have a lot of wild garlic mustard plants growing in my yard.I let them grow till the flowers fade then I pull them up. i get them every spring,after that its a little tough keepingthings growing inthose spots. those spots are under a group of 13 tulip poplar trees. does recomend something that would grow well in the same spot with flowers and about a foot or two tall and bloom in late summer or fall. still working on that engish garden. -- greengrass Yes I know the problem. The ground is moist/wet and lets the garlic thrive in the spring. The trees leaf and the ground gets dry and shaded by which time the garlic has died back leaving a fairly blank area. Does that fit your situation with 13 (you did say 13 ) tulip poplars? Without a bit of judicious culling of garlic (digging up) it will eventually out compete most other plants. Some of the plants listed for dry shade may be OK for you. http://home.clara.net/tmac/urgring/faqshade.htm |
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garlic mustard
greengrass writes
Rupert \(W.Yorkshire\) Wrote: "greengrass" wrote in message ... I have a lot of wild garlic mustard plants growing in my yard.I let them grow till the flowers fade then I pull them up. i get them every spring,after that its a little tough keepingthings growing inthose spots. those spots are under a group of 13 tulip poplar trees. does recomend something that would grow well in the same spot with flowers and about a foot or two tall and bloom in late summer or fall. still working on that engish garden. -- greengrass Yes I know the problem. The ground is moist/wet and lets the garlic thrive in the spring. The trees leaf and the ground gets dry and shaded by which time the garlic has died back leaving a fairly blank area. Does that fit your situation with 13 (you did say 13 ) tulip poplars? Without a bit of judicious culling of garlic (digging up) it will eventually out compete most other plants. Some of the plants listed for dry shade may be OK for you. http://tinyurl.com/ql5rj Yeh, thats what happens alright. afterwards it's tough getting things to grow in those same spots. what do you usually put in those areas? I try a coulple of things and see what happens. I really don't mindthe way they look, in groups , a straight height withsmall with white flowers, but they are invasive as hell. I heard they're susposed to have some kind of medicinel purpose as well. thanks. I don't suppose it makes a lot of difference, but is it garlic mustard you have (member of the cabbage family), or wild garlic (onion family, one or two broad green leaves coming from the ground and stem with a cluster of white flowers? IME, garlic prefers it damper than garlic mustard. Garlic mustard grows and flowers a bit later in the year than wild garlic. -- Kay |
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