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Post by Deleted on Apr 19, 2015 22:19:49 GMT
Japanese Knotweed is horrible. It just can't be killed.
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Post by snoozy on Apr 20, 2015 2:54:53 GMT
Japanese Knotweed is horrible. It just can't be killed. Goats love it. Sic 'em on it. |
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Post by Deleted on Apr 20, 2015 3:32:18 GMT
Yep the curse of the lemon balm! Why oh why did I ever plant that thing? What was I thinking? I keep ALL mints safely locked in containers now.....well, except for Bee Balm. She can spread all she wants.... Anyone make the mistake of planting trumpet vine? Oh lordy! Nice the first couple of blooms. Oh it's so pretty....hummingbirds love it! Just TRY to get rid of it! I've still got suckers coming out 10 years after I transplanted the thing onto a telephone pole (which it now owns) The trunk is about 3 inches dia. I've seen people weave the vines into a tree and keep it trimmed. But no thanks. Spreads to easily. I was wondering if the "I hate" is only confined to plants. Cuz I hate when 'someone' in the house washes a sharp knife in the kitchen sink, with the edge into the sponge....and then walks away. Might as well slice the thing in half. Considering there are only 2 people in the house, pretty much narrows it down to 'not me'. I hate that! Okay rant's over. Back to plants!  |
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Post by arkymack on Apr 22, 2015 6:09:57 GMT
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Post by Deleted on Apr 23, 2015 3:14:10 GMT
I hate bindweed. The only way to get rid of it is to move.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 26, 2015 5:30:02 GMT
VINES! Smilax, muscadine, and, even though I love the smell of it, honeysuckle!
I've spent the better part of two winters pulling these monstrous things out of trees, digging up as much root as I can, and making sure I keep at any new leaf growth until the beasties finally give up and starve to death. I have some muscadine vines that are as thick as my thigh and had to take a chainsaw to them.
I also have some Virginia Creeper, but that doesn't bother me too much so I leave it alone (plus it turns a pretty red in the fall).
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Post by oxankle on Apr 26, 2015 10:08:20 GMT
I hate rocks as big as softballs that jam my tiller! I did not OWN a rock in oklahoma. Here there is nothing else. No dang wonder there are rock walls all over Europe and New England. Wife saw what she thought was a rock wall here, but it was only a pile of rocks along a fence line where some poor devil tried to scratch a living out of a river bottom field.
A friend in Ok told of helping her father every winter, piling rocks on a sled and carrying them to the fenceline. That was in Missouri, probably just North of here from the looks of things.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 26, 2015 22:31:43 GMT
I hate bindweed. The only way to get rid of it is to move. I'm with you in the Hate Bindweed group. Ugh! Today, though, I'm hating into the animal world, too. I hate rabbits - especially the ones that decimated my strawberry plants. ALL of them. grrrr..... |
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Post by freelove on Apr 27, 2015 15:46:33 GMT
I hate Bishop's weed aka ground elder and a lot of other names that can't be posted.
It has taken over my yard and garden and there is nothing that will stop it. I have been fighting it and digging it for 35 years and it just thrives. It is twined into my rhubarb roots, coming up between the pavers in my greenhouse, strangling the peonies my Dad planted and it killed his roses. It has killed my lemon balm, nettles and mint. It has taken aim at my asparagus and strawberries. I am getting old and it is hard for me to keep fighting it.
I grow organically so I do not use Round up, but people have told me that even Roundup won't kill it.
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Post by pinktulip on Apr 30, 2015 21:59:06 GMT
Add me to the hating bindweed camp. We have it all through our front flower bed and nothing will kill it. I feel like it's a never-ending battle.
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Post by grillbilly on Apr 30, 2015 22:59:26 GMT
I'll sign up with the quackgrass group.
Years ago I had three bags of topsoil left over from a project. I needed them out of my truck bed as another project was pressing so I stacked them over in the 'weeds' so I wouldn't have to mow around them.
Later that fall I found them again and the top one had grass growing out of it, and when I went to pull on it the whole bag lifted up. So I whipped out my knife and sliced the bag open only to find that approximately 75% of the topsoil had been consumed/replaced by quackgrass roots. I cut away the plastic on the lower two bags and I'll be danged if those roots didn't retain the shape of the bags! It was like it's own little shrine-temple to quackgrass. The stuff is evil, six layers of plastic and 120 pounds of dirt it bored through to see the light of day. I wish I had taken a picture of it, but the Polaroid was out of film.
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Post by snoozy on May 1, 2015 19:03:43 GMT
YOu know, I have to say, every time this thread comes up in my "participated" list, it jars me. The title of the thread. This forum is so much pleasanter than that other forum, that it is just jarring to see the words "A Hate Post". Even though of course it is humourous. Still. It's like seeing a swastika -- an involuntary recoil, you know?
That's how nice this forum is.
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Post by barefootfarmer on May 1, 2015 19:11:02 GMT
Quack grass in the rhubarb...oh wait, what rhubarb? I'm almost ready to throw my gloves in and give up. I've considered digging up all the rhubarb plants and relocating them to raised, framed beds on the other side of the farm. I consider that idea a lot, while on my hands and knees, digging...
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