Originally posted by architect: You obviously don't have the Japanese Stilt Grass in your neck of the woods (yet).
That shit showed up about 4-5 years ago here in my neck of NoVA. The stuff that kills it is overly expensive - tried it once with marginal results. We finally got rid of it simply by physically pulling it out of the ground every time we saw it. Gotta do it before it seeds in July-August. It doesn't help that the neighbors do nothing about it and have lawns full of that frickin' shit. I'd love to know how that shit got here.
Another is mint. My Mom planted some when I was a kid to make jelly. Pulled it out in the fall. I don't think she or my Dad ever got rid of it.
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Posts: 10381 | Location: Northern Virginia | Registered: November 04, 2005
When I lived in Washington it was Blackberry, hands down... Around here it's Bush Honeysuckle - it releases a herbicide as it spreads to kill all other plants, has billions of seeds, and grows 10 feet in a few months.
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Posts: 4228 | Location: The Prairie | Registered: April 28, 2007
Originally posted by RogueJSK: Crabgrass. If you don't apply pre-emergent to prevent it, it'll totally take over your yard, and nothing will touch it.
Nothing in the big box store will touch it. Have you tried tenacity (i.e. formerly commercial weed killer now available to consumers at garden centers) with a surfactant?
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Posts: 25501 | Location: Northern Suburbs of Houston | Registered: November 14, 2005
HRK we used to pay a man to burn the palmettos when we were clearing to plant trees on our property. Like you said a simple brush fire is nothing but a warm up for them. You have to up root then burn them, like piling them up and dousing them in diesel, and adding more to burn them down.
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Yucca may the worst in Colorado's eastern plains. It's really bad in some fields & pastures. Fortunately it is easily killed with Remedy herbicide (triclopyr). Unfortunately the plant propagates like wildfire from both seeds and roots.
On the weed side, mullein and thistle are serious problems on our plains areas. The plants are easy to kill with herbicide, however mature plants produce gazillions of seeds that can remain viable for decades.
Posts: 8427 | Location: Colorado | Registered: January 26, 2008
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Posts: 10098 | Location: At the end of the gravel road. | Registered: November 02, 2006
Kudzu in the south. Invades everything. Goes dormant in winter then returns in spring with vengeance and grows super fast. Round up and Ground clear products wilt it but never kill it. I've dug up the roots, pass the root balls, and drowned areas with Eound Up and it'll still grow back. My neighbor and I fight it every year. It's relentless.
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Posts: 1374 | Location: N. Georgia | Registered: March 23, 2008
Originally posted by sigmonkey: I'd fly to Turks and Caicos with live ammo falling out of my pockets before getting within spitting distance of NJ with a firearm.
Posts: 4811 | Location: Staring down at you with disdain, from the spooky mountaintop castle. | Registered: November 20, 2010
Mesquite, grass burs, grapevine, greenbriar, bull nettle... take your pick. It's an expensive and time consuming effort year round to keep these and other invasive plants out of my Coastal Bermuda hay fields. I've got all five plus a few others in the new field I bought, and after 4 years of trying to make a decent hay field out of it I'm going to give up and run cattle on it.
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Posts: 2668 | Location: West of Fort Worth | Registered: March 05, 2008
