RE: todays issues in the garden......picture link

This is the first year for this always stayed neatly in a clump getting
larger but together... plant has been there 5-6 years, guessing it decided
to move on.... URGH!

Donna

> 
> Leaves look like turtlehead to me, but mine certainly don't spread as
> extensively as that.
> Cathy
> On Monday, April 18, 2005, at 06:17 PM, Donna wrote:
> 
> > Yep, got a picture, hope you (or someone here) knows what it is...
> >
> > http://www.simplymyworld.com/whatisit.jpg
> >
> >
> > Donna
> >
> >>
> >> I really don't think that could be Turtlehead.  Got a picture?
> >> Kitty
> >>
> >> ----- Original Message -----
> >>
> >>> As I was cleaning up one of the garden beds today, seen these - what
> >>> I
> >>> thought were seedlings. Been looking at them for a week trying to
> >>> decide
> >>> what they were. (remember I normally don't get to my yard at this
> >>> 'time
> >> of
> >>> year', doing other things for the last 7 years.)
> >>>
> >>> Well decided that some of them had to go as they were in another
> >>> plants
> >>> area....hum... this seedling is not pulling out very easy.... oops!
> >>> This
> >>> sucker is traveling around from underground to everywhere! My current
> >>> thought (have had a few with this plant) is it might be Chelone? Does
> >>> turtlehead spread underground with a massive root system/reminds me
> >>> of a
> >>> small tree root?
> >>>
> >>> Well what ever it is, it has to go..... so attempted to dig them up
> >>> but
> >> I
> >>> think they won. Going to try earlier in the day and see if I have
> >>> more
> >>> strength to do this (was tired already when I started this).
> >>>
> >>> So besides hiring some young strong person to do this.... any ideas?
> >>> How
> >>> about roundup? Would it make it easier to do this after the plants
> >>> were
> >>> dead?
> >>>
> >>> thoughts folks? It appears to go down about 7 inches of solid root
> >>> mass/stems/whatever and it fights being dug up! I was ready to strip
> >>> it
> >> down
> >>> the 7 or so inches and just get rid of the whole mess... but it won't
> >> even
> >>> let you do a patch at a time!
> >>>
> >>> Donna
> >>> Who can't wait to get to the other garden with the tansy and white
> >> gooseneck
> >>> that I planned on eradicating!
> >
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