Closet Gardners & Lawn Gurus

[JohnR]

OK, with all of you closet gardners and lawn gurus, I have a question for you. When the idiot that built my house had the yard graded, he may or may not have used clean fill. But since day one, we've had these bamboo like weeds that grow in variuos parts of the yard. This stuff is like a mini bamboo tree and can reach 6 foot heights. If we rip it out at the root, within 4 weeks it's 4 feet tall again


Anyone know what this stuff is called? How to get rid of it?

[NaCl H2O]

Sounds like sumac. Check out this link.

http://www.dnr.state.wi.us/org/land/...eets/sumac.htm

[spence]

It probably has runners that run just under the surface. We have the same thing behind our fence and it will tunnel 10' into the yard and pop up. Unless you get the runner it will just come right back...



-spence

[Fishpart]

Step 1: Drive over it once a week with that orange thing parked in the yard with an engine on top.....I destroyed about a half acre of wild rasberries with regular mowings..

Step B: Chemically eradicate it....Weed-B-Gone may work on it without killing the grass

[FishermanTim]

If the leaves are shaped like the spade on a deck of cards, and grow on opposing sides of the stalk, and the stalks are green with a hint of red where the segments meet, it sounds like a plant I grew up calling "wild rhubarb".
It is an invasive plant, and will grow back from small pieces of root. I would also suggest checking with your local garden supply/nursery for suggestions for treatmnt. The other, more time consuming method is to dig them up, or keep cutting them back. Eventually this will kill them off, but as I said, it's time consuming.
Good luck.

[BEETLE]

Got that same chit in spots of my yard.... impossible to get rid of, even weed killer has little effect..... but soon it is a memory cause the house is under agreement

soon i'll be more of a fisherman and less of a groundskeeper

[Raven]

i went ballistic in my yard this spring....and cut down at least 75 18 footers
via chainsaw and just yesterday i noticed all these little red frilly thangs popping up on the huge lawn like 30 feet from where the stand of sumac trees were....
[we had to get a burning permit to destroy the huge amount i cut back.]

the stuff is resilient i have to say that ......its a friggan menace for sure.
its new englands kudzu....

[JohnR]

Originally Posted by FishermanTim

If the leaves are shaped like the spade on a deck of cards, and grow on opposing sides of the stalk, and the stalks are green with a hint of red where the segments meet, it sounds like a plant I grew up calling "wild rhubarb".
It is an invasive plant, and will grow back from small pieces of root. I would also suggest checking with your local garden supply/nursery for suggestions for treatmnt. The other, more time consuming method is to dig them up, or keep cutting them back. Eventually this will kill them off, but as I said, it's time consuming.
Good luck.

This sounds like it alright. It's not the one in that other picture - stuff is nasty...

[Jimbo]

Take a chunk to your local garden supply and have it identified then see what they have to kill it while leaving the grass. Or even try calling the 800 number on an Ortho container and see what the experts on their hotline have to say.