Quilter/Botanist

Yes 'tis I! And they misquoted the daylights out of me, making me appear a complete fool! What they should have said was "only a pre-emergent herbicide will work." That will keep the weed from sprouting, along with EVERYTHING else, but anything you spray on that weed once it's up it will just laugh at.

Monique

Which makes me wonder: will the pre-emergent herbicide harm any plants that are already established? I'm thinking this might be the solution to the oxalis infestation. Those suckers just fling their seeds all over creation. Roberta in D

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Usually, no, unless you've got a plant that's bothered by whatever they're using as a carrier for the herbicide.

Monique in TX

I am wondering what you use on those plants that aspire to be baobobs. ("The Little Prince" reference) The other day I spent a few hours digging a pit, pulling out pokeweed roots, and frightening the neighbors with a running dialogue with the weed. I dug some four or five feet down, and then poured a few gallons of boiling water in. I figure I set it back at least a year. The next death dealing project will be the lonicera tartarica (siberian honeysuckle), the Count Dracula of flowering shrubs.

NightMist

I'm a hand-puller, but when pushed, I will resort to Roundup. I don't like it, but it is effective. Sometimes you have to cut a stem and paint it with Roundup. Fiddly, but accurate. For pampas grass, I have considered napalm (lit sterno may be substituted), but it never attempted a comeback....

Monique in TX

*sigh* That is exactly what the master gardeners at the extension, the department of enviromental conservation, and the arborist I consulted about our blighted butternut tree told me I would have to do with the honeysuckle. Maybe I will have enough left over to attack the pokeweed that wants to be a baobob next year.

NightMist