Finch
Whats it to ya?
When we bought our large property we were looking foreward to planting a good variety of plants and such on it. HOw EvEr, it was inhabited mostly by spotted knapweed. fine, we tought, we'll just use weed killer and replant native grasses in its place...
Not so easy, as it turned out. Not only are they maddeningly dificult to eradicate (3 years to get the last off) it turns out that this plant uses a secret wepon.
It produces the toxin catechin(-) from its roots and places it in the soil, wich immidiatly kills off any other plant (exept knapweed, of course!)
We have no idea how long knapweeds been growing on the property but it must be a while since the catechin(-) levels in the soilare high. Expecially since the plants were streesed by us eradicating them . and that means...
We cant plant anything in the soil once we've eradicated the weed, its barren! not even other weeds can grow there! and with barren soil the knapweed is coming back. Its auful. We still have the lawn anda untouched garden but thats being taken over by the incredibly invasive creeping jenny, wich no matter how hard we try, we cant get out. So
Everyone has weeds, what's your problem species?
Not so easy, as it turned out. Not only are they maddeningly dificult to eradicate (3 years to get the last off) it turns out that this plant uses a secret wepon.
It produces the toxin catechin(-) from its roots and places it in the soil, wich immidiatly kills off any other plant (exept knapweed, of course!)
We have no idea how long knapweeds been growing on the property but it must be a while since the catechin(-) levels in the soilare high. Expecially since the plants were streesed by us eradicating them . and that means...
We cant plant anything in the soil once we've eradicated the weed, its barren! not even other weeds can grow there! and with barren soil the knapweed is coming back. Its auful. We still have the lawn anda untouched garden but thats being taken over by the incredibly invasive creeping jenny, wich no matter how hard we try, we cant get out. So
Everyone has weeds, what's your problem species?