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Posted by flowergirl70ks 5/6KS (My Page) on Sun, Mar 6, 05 at 17:01
| Please help me, is there any way to kill ornithogulam umbellatum? I have tried Roundup at various times of the year to no avail. |
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| Star of Bethlehem is one of those plants that is very hard to kill. It grows from a bulb and the best recommendation I've seen is to dig it up and destroy the bulb. This is one of the few organic things I would NOT put in a compost pile either unless I was very thorough in grinding up the bulbs and even then I'd think twice. This will probably have to be repeated a number of times to get good control. I'm sure this is not what you wanted to hear! |
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| You will probably need to use your compost sifter to sift the soil to get the bulbs out. Al |
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| Thanks, I tried the digging and sifting method several years ago, I think it's worse. That whole bed now looks like a grass plot, only it's the Stars of Bethlehem. I never let them go to seed. I pull the blooms off as soon as I see them. I would fumigate the whole bed, only it's rather large and has things I don't care to dig, like tree peonies. Fine Gardening says that roundup will do it. I tried field strength with vinegar in it, spring and after bloom, then the same strength with spreader sticker. I have spent a lot of time on this. It seems I can kill the large bulb, but there are always lots of small ones around it that don't die.There is a product named Manage that is supposed to kill nut grass. I guess I'll try that next. |
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