Run away; Snow on the Mountain & Gil o'er the Ground

by Jenny
(New Brunswick Canada)

Snow on the Mountain over takes flowers around my pond

Years ago when I first started my flowering areas, someone gave me a small clump of (I'm sure they must have been giggling inside) Gil O'er the Ground & Snow On the Mountain. Of course they have spread EVERYWHERE. Is there any way I can get rid of them (kill them out) without digging every other plant out & starting over?

Doug says here's the deal. Killing spreading thugs is much more difficult than planting them in the first place.

You start digging - and then be relentless in not allowing a single plant to thrive to multiply. You see them, you pull/dig them out.

The problem is that you have other plants in the same bed. Sprays are pretty much useless in these conditions as are most other methods such as smothering out with cardboard or solar sterilizing with plastic to remove and kill weeds organically.

So m'dear - my apologies for this bit of brutal advice - but you get to start digging. And digging. And digging.

If it's any consolation,I have the same problem with my new garden area. It is fully contaminated with some of the worst garden and plant thugs I know of. The lawns, the garden areas, everything is pretty much infested and I'm in a major rebuilding right now where everything is being killed with 7% vinegar herbicides and then rebuilt. But I won't be able to get it all and I have years of weeding ahead of me.