{"id":10828,"date":"2021-03-26T12:00:18","date_gmt":"2021-03-26T16:00:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/?p=10828"},"modified":"2021-03-13T18:10:43","modified_gmt":"2021-03-13T23:10:43","slug":"getting-rid-of-difficult-weeds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/2021\/03\/26\/getting-rid-of-difficult-weeds\/","title":{"rendered":"Getting Rid Of Difficult Weeds"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Chameleon plant (Houttuynia<\/i>)<\/p><\/div>\n

Some aggressive perennials like Chameleon plant (Houttuynia cordata<\/i>), variegated Bishop’s weed (Aegopodium podagraria<\/em>), along with many woody briars can be extremely difficult to eliminate from a landscape area or garden bed. <\/p>\n

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Variegated Bishop’s weed (Aegopodium podagraria)<\/em><\/p><\/div>\n

If a weedy garden bed contains no desirable plants, you can over spray weeds with glyphosate, a nonselective herbicide.(Roundup\u2122 is common trade name). This chemical does not kill all weed species and repeated applications may be needed on difficult weeds. Hand digging is a more laborious option. <\/p>\n

Broadleaf herbicides (weedkillers) include products labelled 2.4-D, Triclopyr\u00ae and Trimec\u2122. The latter herbicides manage many kinds of plants, including broad-leaved weeds in the lawn. Grasses are not injured. Be careful! Winds may allow herbicide to drift onto trees, shrubs, and perennials resulting in plant damage.<\/p>\n

Depending on the weed species, it may require repeated applications over a year for the targeted area to become weed-free. Some weeds may be leafless (defoliated), yet their thick roots and stems may still be living. In small weedy patches, try painting the herbicide solution on the targeted weed with a small paint brush.<\/p>\n

Mechanical barriers such as spun-bond weed fabric, and multi-sheets of newspaper or cardboard also choke out tough perennial and woody weeds such as English ivy (Hedera helix<\/em>), crown vetch (Coronilla varia<\/em>), wild brambles (Rosa spp<\/em>.+ Rubus spp.<\/em>), Japanese honeysuckle (Lonicera japonica<\/em>), and purple wintercreeper (Euonymus japonicum<\/em> ‘Coloratus’).<\/p>\n\n\n

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Cardboard mulch (partially rotted) + leaf litter gets rid of unwanted English ivy<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Some aggressive perennials like Chameleon plant (Houttuynia cordata), variegated Bishop’s weed (Aegopodium podagraria), along with many woody briars can be extremely difficult to eliminate from a landscape area or garden bed.  If a weedy garden bed contains no desirable plants, you can over spray weeds with glyphosate, a nonselective herbicide.(Roundup\u2122 is common trade name). This […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[772,1522,697,1523,1037,1384,1115,1449,1208,628,991,720,1154,900,853,551,404,843,812,1059,729,159,1031,643,630,904,905],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10828"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10828"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10828\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13064,"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10828\/revisions\/13064"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10828"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10828"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10828"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}