Yesterday TodayI think you'll have to use your imagination because my photos don't reflect reality. We (Walt, really) made great progress on getting rid of the millepertuis yesterday. If you look closely at the top of the Today photo, you can see that the plants' stems there are taller than the ones toward the bottom and middle of the photo. Walt got out our electric hedge clipper and went at it. It's the clipper he used to use to trim our bay laurel hedge every autumn until 2012, when we engaged a lanscaping contractor to do that annual chore. Yesterday, we raked up millepertuis trimmings that filled a wheelbarrow to overflowing. More later.
I guess you were lucky the wort wasn't in your main garden and was relatively confined. Glad you found a good way to get rid of it.
ReplyDeleteI was just reading some web pages about getting rid of millepertuis. It seems that it propagates itself both by flowering and releases thousands of seeds and by growing new plants from roots that are inevitably in the ground under them. You can't win...
DeleteExcellent progress on a hard job!
ReplyDeleteIt's going to take a long time to finish it — if we ever can or do. We may have to call in a professional to dig the plants and their roots up and haul them away.. Salt won't kill the plant. Nor will Round Up (but that herbicide has been banned in France anyway). Smothering it under a black plastic tarp might work, but only time will tell.
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