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Mar 15, 2012 7:02 PM CST
Name: Teresa Felty Barrow
South central KY (Zone 6b)
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I just came in at dark, I have been handpulling wild onions from our firepit area. It has 2 to 3 inches of river gravel and those things still come thru. After a rain I can get them up some better without breaking them away from the bulb. Did I mention I also had down landscape fabric :(

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Mar 15, 2012 7:07 PM CST
Name: shirlee
southeast (Zone 6b)
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Nothing, and I mean nothing, can keep wild onions from growing here. Maybe
concrete would do it. They are such a nuisance. We can get them all pulled up,
and in no time they are back. Stubborn little buggers.
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Mar 15, 2012 8:32 PM CST
Name: Cynthia (Cindy)
Melvindale, Mi (Zone 5b)
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I get a lot of garlic chives coming up all over my garden from my neighbors yard. She is Korean and several years ago planted all of these garlic chives. They get tons of seeds on them after they flower and what a mess when they all start germinating.
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Mar 16, 2012 7:28 AM CST
Name: bb
north of boston on the coast
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I know what you mean Cindy, but... Oh, I LOVE LOVE LOVE my garlic chives too! Use them fresh and chop and freeze them. In almost every dish I make - salads, eggs, stir fries, veggie dishes, meats, pasta dishes etc. Everyday! And no, I don't let them go to seed. But I do pot and sell/share them with all cooks. Oh, pretty white large chivey flower in Aug.

Nothing like those stiff horrid wild onions that I also can't get rid of.


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Mar 16, 2012 7:45 AM CST
Name: Cynthia (Cindy)
Melvindale, Mi (Zone 5b)
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Yep, that's them. I have regular chives but I have never tried the garlic chives before. I wonder if you could freeze them??
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Mar 16, 2012 8:47 AM CST
Name: bb
north of boston on the coast
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Try 'em, you'll like 'em, Mikey!

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Those that you see in the colander are picked for freezing. I use the food processor with a couple of pumps. Want them under an inch. Plastic freezer bags. I go through half dozen pint size ones each winter. Soups, ya know!
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Mar 16, 2012 9:05 AM CST
Name: Cynthia (Cindy)
Melvindale, Mi (Zone 5b)
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Well rather than chopping them down and disposing of them, I guess I'll try them. Bet they would be good in scrambled eggs.
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Mar 16, 2012 7:26 PM CST
Name: Mona
Guntown, Ms (Zone 7b)
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Ok, I have them and the person that gave them to me said they were posion! I guess I'll have to try them a little at a time to see. I often wondered if they were garlic, why would they be bad to eat???? I wonder, no she was serious, not joking. Or if so, she's got the best poker face I've seen. I can't contact her because I got these in Tennesse. Oh well, take a chance and the worst might be a little extra poooooo.

Opinons???
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Mar 17, 2012 5:49 AM CST
Name: Cynthia (Cindy)
Melvindale, Mi (Zone 5b)
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I hardly think they are poison. My neighbor has been eating them for years.
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Mar 17, 2012 6:51 AM CST
Name: bb
north of boston on the coast
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Make sure that the foliage looks like those I picked. Flat. Foliage here grows just over 12 inches and flowers are about 2 ft.

I do not know of any weed that looks like it.

After the pretty white flower, comes the black seeds - they look pretty. First green, then black. Just make sure that you cut them off before they seed all over (unless you want them too!)
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Mar 24, 2012 9:48 AM CST
Name: tabby
denver, colorado zone 5
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The garlic chives have invaded one of my gardens so bad I'm having to rip everything out of that garden and start from scratch. You can't pull them up because they just break off at the bulb and then start over. They spread like crazy and the bulbs crowd out the roots of other, less aggressive plants.

Has anyone tried Dimension (Dithiopyr) in daylily beds? It's a pre-emergent that is supposed to have a post-emergent affect on crabgrass. The label says it's safe for daylilies. I'm using it on the roses this year. I have a horrible grass problem here - not lawn grass but wild grasses.
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Mar 24, 2012 9:52 AM CST
Name: Cynthia (Cindy)
Melvindale, Mi (Zone 5b)
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I know those garlic chives are awful but wild violets are even worse. They get right on top of the crown of the daylily.
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Mar 25, 2012 8:02 PM CST
Name: Mona
Guntown, Ms (Zone 7b)
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Strange, I have wild violets in my garden and they are very well behaved. Yes, they show up in strange places but singlely not in a huge bunch. I have one growing and blooming in a crack in the driveway that I think is so cute and so hardy but I sware they aren't bad here at all. It could be all the leaves that I allow to stay on the ground keeps them in check or maybe my hard clay soil is so bad that they can't take off and grow like crazy. I guess the same reason I grow daylilies in pots keeps the little pretty violet under control. One woman's weed is another woman's perennial!
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Mar 26, 2012 6:27 AM CST
Name: Cynthia (Cindy)
Melvindale, Mi (Zone 5b)
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They are awful here Mona. I have tried digging them out and it seems I actually get more the next year. I have tried Roundup, doesn't touch them. I have something new I am going to try specifically for violets and woody vines. I'm just waiting for a calm day. It has been too windy to spray.
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Mar 26, 2012 7:35 AM CST
Name: Jan
Hustisford, WI
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True that one persons weed is another ones flower. I too have violets in my lawn, but they haven't yet invaded my beds.

I also have a stemless evening primrose that I just LOVE, and apparently it is considered a noxious weed in some places. They have a taproot like a dandelion. It just barely survives winter here, so it has never spread nor overgrown my front garden (yet). Now dandelions, THAT is another story..... And those baby maple tree seedlings - talk about aggressive! ~Jan
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Mar 26, 2012 5:03 PM CST
Name: Michele
Cantonment, FL zone 8b
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I use the professional strength roundup but in the generic brand called killz all which is around $45 for 2.5 gal. The red label roundup concentrate is only 18% of the active ingredient glysophate but the killz all is 41%. They sell the purple label of roundup which is a super concentrate at 50% but for the price you end up paying for the little bottle of it I can spend a little more and get the 2.5 gal of the other. We have rattlesnake weed around here and it is super hard to get rid of because you have to dig the tubers (which look like really fat rattlesnake tails) and those tubers send out runners which keep going and going and going sort of like dollarweed. We were told that if you use the roundup pro on it about 3 times it should get it, you have to spray it whenever you see it trying to pop back up. Weed B Gone has seemed to work also. I've only sprayed that one time in a different area that didn't get roundup and it hasn't popped back up yet, but we'll see. It's very invasive and we have tried digging it up, but some of those tubers go down like 3-4 feet and I can't dig the whole yard like that.

What is the stuff that is made just for violets and woody vines?
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Mar 26, 2012 6:33 PM CST
Name: Mona
Guntown, Ms (Zone 7b)
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If possible on use of the 41% roundup, use it on a HOT dry day. It works so much better. My DH read this years ago when he was fighting poision oak and the roundup just wasn't working. Now, he waits to spray any bad plants when it gets hot. I know that some things you need to spray in the Spring before it gets hot, but when possible it really works.

Blessings, Mona
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Mar 27, 2012 8:02 AM CST
Name: Cynthia (Cindy)
Melvindale, Mi (Zone 5b)
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Michele, Its called Stump-Out, Stump & Vine Killer. Controls woody plants and vines. Supposed to also kill violets. It is made by Bonide
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Mar 28, 2012 6:24 AM CST
Name: Jan
Hustisford, WI
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Also, my master gardener friend said that the plants have to be actively growing. At our western PA cottage, we have had problems with poison ivy growing under the big patch of 100+ year old lilac bushes. She has us spray in the spring and yes, even hot summer days - but has told me fall spraying won't do anything to the poison ivy - although it may harm other things we don't want to harm. ~Jan
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Dec 14, 2013 3:39 PM CST
Name: Charlie
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