Great video! I found that pulling up taproots to be much easier if the ground is wet, like after a big storm or heavy watering. That's when I do all my weeding and the weeds come out like butter.
Here in NW England, my 2 nemases are bindweed and horsetails/marestails. The slightest bit of bindweed root left in the ground will regrow. I paint it with roundup. The horsetails have underground runners which go down yards. Pulling out firmly removes 3 inches of root. It regrows. It is resistant to roundup due to it's silica based outer layer. Still, worse things happen at sea!
Another interesting and informative video. I yanked out purslane weed in my garden only to find them pop up again in a week. I made the mistake of letting them lay on the soil to die. But they don't. They're succulents so the leaves root and form new plants. I feel like I can't win this war, so I let them grow before they flower. They seem to protect the roots of my flower plants, acting like ground cover, helping them need less water. They are not as nefarious as field bindweed which I have growing out of the base of my coreopsis, strangling it. Every time I pull them out they emit a terrible odor as if to laugh in my face.
@@carmenfisher9392 I'm tempted to try it. Feral cats visit my garden and do their business there sometimes. Do you think it's safe to eat if I wash it?
The first "clover" looks like yellow woodsorrel (Oxalis strcta), which isn't actually a clover. It's a pretty prolific seeder and here it gets an early start. It's not really on my list of obnoxious garden weeds, though. Dandelion may not be easy to get rid of, but it's low growing and (at least here) tends to be a spring weed that isn't doing much during the rest of the year. I'm usually content to ignore it and far more concerned about Johnson grass and bermudagrass.
Cool, you`re another Canadian. I live in Montreal. I've accepted that you can never really get rid of weeds, and weeds are a part of gardening, but there are strategies for controlling them. Where I live weeds are very aggressive, and if you have bare soil by August you will have dense weeds over a meter high. I don't worry about weeds in the lawn, I just mow the lawn regularly. Mowed weeds, from a distance, look like mowed grass. As to flower beds, the best strategy is when you create it, lay down 4 layers of newspaper and cover with mulch before planting, then when you plant, plant aggressive robust perennials that will spread and cover the ground. Hostas are great, because they smother weeds. rustic varieties of daylillies are also great, they spread rapidly. I spend maybe an hour each weekend pulling out the more obnoxious weeds, but it`s not so much to kill them, but to put them at a competitive disadvantage to the plants I want. The trick is to have tough aggressive but attractive perennial or self-seeding annual flowers that will out-compete the weeds, especially if you handicap the weeds by pulling the most obnoxious ones out every weekend. I put my weeds in the compost, but then use the compost only in areas that I will then mulch heavily or where I will plant aggressive plants.
Boy, you haven't dealt with Smilax, the Devil weed. Here in Florida it takes over the woods. It grows through runners, berries and is a total nigthtmare. It had my four acre woods totally captive when I bought this place three years ago. It was 40' up the trees and the ground was impassible except in a golf cart. It would trip you if you tried to walk through it. It has thorns, tubers the size of dinner plates, and a jungle of roots. It laughs at herbicide, since the leaves are waxy. I use my DR trimmer, a Mattock, pulling by hand, and herbicide. You can walk the woods, but I'm always working on it. I may even live to see success...but I doubt it.
@@zeldaharris6876 I've just spent five days out with my DR trimmer and I'm still not done! One way to weaken Smilax is just to keep cutting it down. Then I'll hit it with Triclypr or Roundup and dig out the tubers. DEVIL WEED!
Not sure about thistle but if you continually take the green growth off Bindweed the growth on top will start to colour up somewhat purplish. That's when you know you have it. Just take the top green growth off even a little bit when you see it and eventually new growth will be purple, take the top off one, two more times and they won't come back.
My neighbor has pachysandra that flows into my yard and spreads everywhere. Would "painting" the leaves with Roundup kill this plant? I know it spreads with underground roots. Thanks
As usual, for you, this was a great video. Thank you! I use your roundup method of painting for saplings that have taken root around my garden also. It's pretty effective. Thanks for your hard work on our behalf.
I moved to a new house with a nice sized garden. Now I looked at what is growing there. It is goutweed, horsetail, 10 m long Ivey on the fence and on the ground, nettles, clematis vitalba and instead of grass I have quack grass. there is nothing else growing then these. The whole area is covered with tiles and in between these nasty plants grow. I am going to open an online store selling horstail tea and nettle tea soon I guess.
i have Thistle in my garden and it was common 10 years ago, but now it's just a few plants left, i remember i used roundup (before i heard about it's side effects and bad rep) the herbicide didn't eradicate it bc it kept coming back year after year, but it end being out-competed by Bermuda-grass which is my major nuisance now. i gaveup on weeding altogether, bc it's labor intensive, only do it when i prepare a raised bed for a new season by tilling it and remove the roots of weeds, then mulching with a thick layer of hay but bermuda grass return after a few months always for ground beds i use cardboard as a radical solution, it blocks sunlight and makes bermuda grass turn yellow and die
Adding lily of the valley under the maple, along with happy hostas, was a big mistake, and digging them out is destroying the soil structure and hosta's roots. Now I'm thinking of removing all the good plants from that area, they need dividing anyway, then do a complete cardboard cover with 18" of arborist chips on top, so only the maple survives?? Is that a good idea?
I planted my cassava in rolls and along the rows I have asparagus beds. There are long thin grass that grew and spread by its roots. How do you get rid of them permanently? I tried mulching it didn't work, the grass grew through it.
This video gives me hope in my war with weeds. I have woods bordering my perennial garden, and early in March I started an all--out attack on poison ivy vines that climb the trees. Who knew? Those vines can circle an old maple tree 3 yards out and create an underground web. I found that the vine was still dormant in March and never got a rash. Round-up will work on the leaves. Do you have a suggestion on this plant?
Brand Nettles.. thats a HORRIBLE Weed so horrible on my kids. I had a full yard of this when i moved to the netherlands but after 2 years i finally got rid of most.. each i pulled out by hand each and got them out of my house in the city green can. I pulled them from the root because even a small amount of root n they re grown
No such thing as weeds in my opinion, they're just wildflowers that people don't like where they're growing! I've actually planted what lots of people would call 'weeds' in my garden, along with meadow grasses to create a little wildflower meadow.
Thank you for concisely deseminating informative science based content refreshing in an age when electronic comunication is used to repeat and spread poorly constructed idea's unfortunately it's a product of how and what is taught in educational systems today
many clovers can have a very deep tap root. fortunatelly they dont re-grow as readily as other weeds can. many purchased plants can become quite the weed, and spread too readily. a lot of garden stores only carry a fork like weed removal tool. this is far from being a good weeder, as many types of (full length tool) hoes can be.
Great video! I found that pulling up taproots to be much easier if the ground is wet, like after a big storm or heavy watering. That's when I do all my weeding and the weeds come out like butter.
Here in NW England, my 2 nemases are bindweed and horsetails/marestails. The slightest bit of bindweed root left in the ground will regrow. I paint it with roundup. The horsetails have underground runners which go down yards. Pulling out firmly removes 3 inches of root. It regrows. It is resistant to roundup due to it's silica based outer layer.
Still, worse things happen at sea!
Another interesting and informative video. I yanked out purslane weed in my garden only to find them pop up again in a week. I made the mistake of letting them lay on the soil to die. But they don't. They're succulents so the leaves root and form new plants. I feel like I can't win this war, so I let them grow before they flower. They seem to protect the roots of my flower plants, acting like ground cover, helping them need less water. They are not as nefarious as field bindweed which I have growing out of the base of my coreopsis, strangling it. Every time I pull them out they emit a terrible odor as if to laugh in my face.
Do you know that Purslane is edible? It's great in a salad and supposedly it's full of Omega 3's. I love to see it in my garden. I just eat it!
@@carmenfisher9392 I'm tempted to try it. Feral cats visit my garden and do their business there sometimes. Do you think it's safe to eat if I wash it?
@@00BeesKnees00 Do you eat the other plants you grow in your garden after washing them?☺
The first "clover" looks like yellow woodsorrel (Oxalis strcta), which isn't actually a clover. It's a pretty prolific seeder and here it gets an early start. It's not really on my list of obnoxious garden weeds, though.
Dandelion may not be easy to get rid of, but it's low growing and (at least here) tends to be a spring weed that isn't doing much during the rest of the year. I'm usually content to ignore it and far more concerned about Johnson grass and bermudagrass.
Cool, you`re another Canadian. I live in Montreal. I've accepted that you can never really get rid of weeds, and weeds are a part of gardening, but there are strategies for controlling them. Where I live weeds are very aggressive, and if you have bare soil by August you will have dense weeds over a meter high. I don't worry about weeds in the lawn, I just mow the lawn regularly. Mowed weeds, from a distance, look like mowed grass. As to flower beds, the best strategy is when you create it, lay down 4 layers of newspaper and cover with mulch before planting, then when you plant, plant aggressive robust perennials that will spread and cover the ground. Hostas are great, because they smother weeds. rustic varieties of daylillies are also great, they spread rapidly. I spend maybe an hour each weekend pulling out the more obnoxious weeds, but it`s not so much to kill them, but to put them at a competitive disadvantage to the plants I want. The trick is to have tough aggressive but attractive perennial or self-seeding annual flowers that will out-compete the weeds, especially if you handicap the weeds by pulling the most obnoxious ones out every weekend. I put my weeds in the compost, but then use the compost only in areas that I will then mulch heavily or where I will plant aggressive plants.
Excellent video. I had avoided the round up in favor of vinegar. I’ll try the painting method as I don’t want to spray.
Boy, you haven't dealt with Smilax, the Devil weed. Here in Florida it takes over the woods. It grows through runners, berries and is a total nigthtmare. It had my four acre woods totally captive when I bought this place three years ago. It was 40' up the trees and the ground was impassible except in a golf cart. It would trip you if you tried to walk through it. It has thorns, tubers the size of dinner plates, and a jungle of roots. It laughs at herbicide, since the leaves are waxy. I use my DR trimmer, a Mattock, pulling by hand, and herbicide. You can walk the woods, but I'm always working on it. I may even live to see success...but I doubt it.
Commiserations - I thought bind weed was bad. I am determine to win - I trying to look at it as a character building exercise.
@@zeldaharris6876 I've just spent five days out with my DR trimmer and I'm still not done! One way to weaken Smilax is just to keep cutting it down. Then I'll hit it with Triclypr or Roundup and dig out the tubers. DEVIL WEED!
my favorite part is when you go to his website, you get phished! wonderful.
Great idea to brush the weeds if there are few left.
Not sure about thistle but if you continually take the green growth off Bindweed the growth on top will start to colour up somewhat purplish.
That's when you know you have it.
Just take the top green growth off even a little bit when you see it and eventually new growth will be purple, take the top off one, two more times and they won't come back.
My neighbor has pachysandra that flows into my yard and spreads everywhere. Would "painting" the leaves with Roundup kill this plant? I know it spreads with underground roots. Thanks
As usual, for you, this was a great video. Thank you! I use your roundup method of painting for saplings that have taken root around my garden also. It's pretty effective. Thanks for your hard work on our behalf.
Classification of weeds: any plant which is growing where it's not wanted.
I moved to a new house with a nice sized garden. Now I looked at what is growing there. It is goutweed, horsetail, 10 m long Ivey on the fence and on the ground, nettles, clematis vitalba and instead of grass I have quack grass. there is nothing else growing then these. The whole area is covered with tiles and in between these nasty plants grow. I am going to open an online store selling horstail tea and nettle tea soon I guess.
Yarrow is my worst weed but also have most of those you showed.
i have Thistle in my garden and it was common 10 years ago, but now it's just a few plants left,
i remember i used roundup (before i heard about it's side effects and bad rep)
the herbicide didn't eradicate it bc it kept coming back year after year, but it end being out-competed by Bermuda-grass which is my major nuisance now.
i gaveup on weeding altogether, bc it's labor intensive, only do it when i prepare a raised bed for a new season by tilling it and remove the roots of weeds, then mulching with a thick layer of hay but bermuda grass return after a few months always
for ground beds i use cardboard as a radical solution, it blocks sunlight and makes bermuda grass turn yellow and die
Adding lily of the valley under the maple, along with happy hostas, was a big mistake, and digging them out is destroying the soil structure and hosta's roots. Now I'm thinking of removing all the good plants from that area, they need dividing anyway, then do a complete cardboard cover with 18" of arborist chips on top, so only the maple survives?? Is that a good idea?
I planted my cassava in rolls and along the rows I have asparagus beds. There are long thin grass that grew and spread by its roots. How do you get rid of them permanently? I tried mulching it didn't work, the grass grew through it.
This video gives me hope in my war with weeds. I have woods bordering my perennial garden, and early in March I started an all--out attack on poison ivy vines that climb the trees. Who knew? Those vines can circle an old maple tree 3 yards out and create an underground web. I found that the vine was still dormant in March and never got a rash. Round-up will work on the leaves. Do you have a suggestion on this plant?
Brand Nettles.. thats a HORRIBLE Weed so horrible on my kids. I had a full yard of this when i moved to the netherlands but after 2 years i finally got rid of most.. each i pulled out by hand each and got them out of my house in the city green can. I pulled them from the root because even a small amount of root n they re grown
I shared a fence with a neighbor who let bindweed grows wild. How do you deal with bindweed problem on my side. Garding in west coast of BC. Zone 8?
No such thing as weeds in my opinion, they're just wildflowers that people don't like where they're growing!
I've actually planted what lots of people would call 'weeds' in my garden, along with meadow grasses to create a little wildflower meadow.
Thank you for concisely deseminating informative science based content refreshing in an age when electronic comunication is used to repeat and spread poorly constructed idea's unfortunately it's a product of how and what is taught in educational systems today
many clovers can have a very deep tap root. fortunatelly they dont re-grow as readily as other weeds can.
many purchased plants can become quite the weed, and spread too readily. a lot of garden stores only carry a fork like weed removal tool. this is far from being a good weeder, as many types of (full length tool) hoes can be.
I eat dandelion and can sell them to restaurants.
Could just use glyphosate
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you dont know about plants spreading under ground??? then,why am i listening to you?!