Gardening-related Ping!
I was SO proud of one of my customers today. She was ready to tackle the garlic mustard on her land and she wanted my advice.
It was such a RELIEF to be able to suggest she use (evil) Round-Up to do it in because most days I’m talking to Hippies that think the use of Corn Gluten is the ONLY answer to all of their “organic” problems, LOL!
For some reason “Corporate” sent me four Buckthorns. They’ll never make it into the yard; trust me on that. ;)
We do sell Honeysuckle (vines & shrubs) but I pooh-pooh it to any customer that will listen. Nine times out of ten, a customer tells me that they just tore OUT their honeysuckle and want to put in something else.
Garlic mustard? Sounds like a pretzel flavor.
Hope they have better luck than the south has had eradicating Kudzu ... despicable plant.
Would they like to come to my yard?
I’m fighting garlic mustard and stilt grass. If you get rid of everything for five years running or so, you’ll mostly exhaust the seed bank. Unfortunately, something comes up every few years and I lose ground.
The stilt grass is worse because it roots at every node and spreads much better and less conspicuously than garlic mustard.
We don’t see buckthorn here, but I’d like to put Norway maple on the list. There’s a vicious Norway maple-deer synergy taking over the woods and my only consolation is that once the browse line is higher than five feet and the understory is nothing but stilt grass and garlic mustard, the cervid rats will all starve.
I bet in five years people will be begging to get Americorps out of the Honeysuckle quagmire.
Garlic Mustard gets after the mycorihzal fungi that enable much tree growth.
It should be eliminated.
Taking jobs away from illegal aliens.....or, are illegal aliens taking over Americorps?