Annoying relentlessly spawning weed/plant
Stephen Cornish
Posts: 72
I'm starting to loath these blighters ...
I cleared a flower bed several months ago of everything except a few of the main plants we wanted to keep there.
Hurrah.
However, the last few weeks, these blighters (see above) have been spawning from the depths like a plague of locusts. You pick them all out and a day or so later there are just as many back again.
As their seeds as so small and look just like earth or small stones, I've decided that I might just let them all grow for a few months and then pick them all out when they are bigger and easily to locate. Until the bulbs start shooting, they are simply impossible to detect.
Is that the best solution? What is the name of these blighters? Do you have to extract the root and bulb or is the bulb enough?
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Looks like Arum maculatum. Very difficult to eradicate as the bulbs/tubers have lots of tiny offsets which soon grow. You can use Weed killer on them, Just add a little liquid soap to the mix, it makes it stick to the leaves.
I feel for you.
I had the same problem 2 yrs ago, almost all gone now.
Somehow I think I must have got 1 or more of the ripe seedheads into my compost bins, then spread the compost and seed over parts of my garden - it started popping up everywhere.
It's a beggar to get rid of.
The tiny bulblets will send up leaves from at least 1ft down! I had 000's at one time.
Glyphosphate didn't work - but I didn't add a few drops of liquid soap, so def worth a try. I hoed and pulled out as much as I could and whenever I saw a leaf appear I'd pull out as deep as I could.
Try and get rid of it as best you can, and good luck!
Billericay - Essex
Knowledge is knowing that a tomato is a fruit.
Wisdom is not putting it in a fruit salad.
I don't like it either, yet there was a post on here the other day and the poster said she liked it and wanted it to spread.
'Beware what you wish for' springs to mind.....
They're stunning plants, but the way they spread and choke everything else is frightening
Billericay - Essex
Knowledge is knowing that a tomato is a fruit.
Wisdom is not putting it in a fruit salad.
Defo an Arum, but I'll be darned if I can work out which sub specie of Arum it is. They all look the same. Googling keeps giving me pages where people say how lovely they are. ARGH!!!!
If I could work out how they operate I might be onto something. Where are these seeds coming from? Is it just the seed one needs to get out of the ground or root and stem too??
As I mentioned above, the tiny little bulbs can send a shoot up from over 1', but I found that a good hoeing on a regular basis cleared them eventually.
I had a bit of a problem the 1st yr after 'compost' spreading, but the following year I had 0000's coming up allover the place.
I dug the soil over and took out as many bulblets as I could find then hoed when the next lot of leaves appeared then repeated the cycle.
Yr 3 now and I've only found a few remaining growing amongst shrubs etc
The seeds come from the bight red berries on the flower stem, the little bulbs also grow from the main bulb - bit of a double whammy!
Billericay - Essex
Knowledge is knowing that a tomato is a fruit.
Wisdom is not putting it in a fruit salad.
Looks like I've got years of weeding ahead of me
Just think how fit you'll be
Billericay - Essex
Knowledge is knowing that a tomato is a fruit.
Wisdom is not putting it in a fruit salad.
Round 4 ...