Wed, 09 Apr 2008

Invasive Plants
Spring is well underway here in Austin. The wildflowers are putting on a good show and we had a little rain so the trees all have little bright green leaves on them. But the weeds are really going crazy. Running bamboo is taking over my backyard compost area, and most homeowners are battling stickyweed. Stickyweed is a little shade loving plant that is covered with little hairs that make it stick to your clothes. It grows a lot in spring and is dead before the summer heat sets in. We usually use a hoe and a rake to remove stickyweed, and corn gluten works well to prevent it from sprouting in the early spring. I will wait until the bamboo ends its growth spurt in May and cut it all down at one time.


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