Do You Battle a Invasive Plant ? NY Ban Sale of Certain Plants

[ducks4you]

I have Canadian thistle... Hawk weed and few others... Anyone have any thistle banishing tips?

Keep cutting or use a shovel and dig. The trick is to keep these weeds from going to seed. Burdock will try to see at 4 inches tall, so even constant mowing won't completely prevent this. Thistles are the same way.
I guess walk the property and dig and throw away in the garbage to let them flourish someplace else.

 

[annageckos]

The worst weed here is creeping charlie. I pull a lot of charlie out of the gardens. The lawn is pretty much mixed weeds, and I do like it that way. But CC drives me crazy.

 

[digitS']

I don't know if I mentioned it here ... 17 pages?!

Wood hyacinth is considered an invasive in some parts of the US. Is it here? I don't know!

The first buds are showing up on some of the plants. I will appreciate seeing them bloom. I didn't plant them so I'm guessing that the little old lady who once lived here did, 25+ years ago.

The 3 places where they are growing have a good deal of shade but they survive and look good. The flowers will open about the time that warm weather can begin to be counted on. But, I don't know if I am harboring a plant that might ultimately cause problems.

Steve

 

[aftermidnight]

Do I battle an invasive plant, you betcha. Campanula rapunculoides, the evil one, it was in the garden when we moved here in 1965 and it's still here worse than ever . Then there's Herb Robert, it's all over the place, pull, pull, pull, I can't get rid of it, I think I've got it all and the next thing you know it's running amuck again . Shall I go on? Buttercup's another one, we've had such a wet winter one of my beds is almost solid buttercups , nothing else to do but dig the whole bed up, salvage what I can and work on sweetening the soil before planting again it's just not fair, I need a hug.

Annette

 

[Ridgerunner]

Edited for bad tasted.

 

[aftermidnight]

Thanks for the hug, @Ridgerunner I needed one, I feel much better now .

Annette

 

[Pulsegleaner]

I just got back in from doing battle with one of my invasives. As part of one of my seed hunt grow outs I am working with some seeds of something thistle-ly (which may or may not be artichokes). One the assumption they are, I wanted to give them a lot of space, so the garden under the wall has been pressed back into service. But that meant dealing with the fact the space is INFESTED with Star of Bethlehem (Ornithogalum umbellatum) We pulled waht we could as we forked, but I suspect that we will be pulling for quite some time before it is all gone (Dad likes the flowers so he is transplanting some of it to the side where we have waste ground.)

 

[aftermidnight]

Wood Hyacinths (Spanish Bluebells), got those too but I don't have a hate on for them like I have for those others. They're here in my garden in a couple of spots, I just pull them where I don't want them. They are very persistent tho, a few year back they completely covered the ground in my raspberry bed, the raspberry plants had been in a long time and needed renewing so out they came, we dug down removed about 2 feet of soil, put it all through a screen, amended it with some good stuff and planted some new canes. A few years later it's full of wood hyacinths again, at least there's no room for other weeds to grow and it's rather pretty this time of year.

On the other hand I've been trying to establish a little patch of English Bluebells for 5 years, third time lucky they seem to be finally multiplying. I garden 'Cottage Style' no rhyme nor reason to it, just plunk em in where I can find a spot. Also have a few quirky things too.


Annette

 

[Nyboy]

Pulse I have star of bethleham in my lawn, I also like it. by time to cut grass it has been flowered out.

 

[aftermidnight]

I don't think you can call our little patch of green out front a lawn. We gave up the green weedless perfect lawn years ago and let mother nature have her way with it. Yes it's still green at times but in the summer it's a patch of brown, the only green is the clover I seeded in it and the only water it gets is what falls from the sky. The rest of the year it's a combination of several types of moss, wild violets, creeping veronica, the odd crocus and some English daisies. I think there's still the odd blade of grass among it all . We do make an effort to pull the dandelions, other than that it's let to it's own devices.
Annette