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Help! Vinca minor is taking over my beds
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Posted by janice_il z5 IL (My Page) on Wed, May 30, 07 at 11:09
| I need help in controlling vinca minor. It is beginning to choke out my astillbes, artemesia ,etc. I'm also trying to add some pin cushion plants to a small bed of vinca and I think there will be too much competition. Do I just yank handfuls out or should I find the mother plant and remove some of those? Any advice would be ver much appreciated |
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RE: Help! Vinca minor is taking over my beds
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| I use a serrated knife for weeding. You could just saw off the tops and as much root as you can get and hope for the best. I don't find V. minor to have very deep roots but haven't tried to eradicate it either. Or you could get a shovel and dig out the whole plant and roots and maybe have fewer come back. Or you could put down black plastic, newspaper, cardboard, etc. to smother it and cover it with bark or other organic mulch to make it look better. You could move plants to another area where you need ground cover? |
RE: Help! Vinca minor is taking over my beds
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| Tks for the response. The problem is that the vinca is growing throughout a landscaped perenial bed so it all amongst Coral Bells, Astillbe, Daylillys, Artemesia, Roses, etc and it looks like it's beginning to win the fight! I think part of the problem is our landscaper put in too many vinca plants to begin with 3 years ago and it's really taking off. I would like to move it to other parts of my garden so I hate to just yank at it. What do you think? |
RE: Help! Vinca minor is taking over my beds
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| There's no reason you can't dig it up and move it. You can cut any of the plant, dig up the rooted area, replant. I have vinca all through a slope that also is overgrown with weeds amongst the creeping juniper. I have been pulling weeds and clipping juniper. Sometimes I make a mistake and pull the vinca. I just stick it somewhere else in the soil. And if you have too much, you can send it to me LOL! I'm having to use brush killer on the slope in spots where poison ivy and wild raspberry has taken over (in addition to the vinca, juniper and multitude of weeds). I'm not always accurate with the brush killer (and when poison ivy's involved I don't care!). so I'm sacrificing some vinca for the greater good. good luck! |
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