[MAIPC] Using hoe rather than trimmer on lesser celandine

[John Ambler]

In a 2016 post I mentioned that I was trying use of string trimmer for
lesser celandine control.  

 

However at my large county park garden plot I trimmed the whole garden
several times during the 2016 growing season for weed control.  (I did not
have the garden planted.)  I had planted two lesser celandine plants there
in early spring for observation.  Apparently I spread seeds from them over
about a 12 ft. circle using the string trimmer.

 

Now for initial control and prevention of seed formation, I have decided to
use a very sharp hoe to cut off the tops of lesser celandine rather than
doing this with a string trimmer.  Hoeing out the tubers is not practical
and may facilitate their washing downstream.  I am using a hoe just to cut
off the tops of plants right now before seeds or bulbils form to slow down
the plants because they are already flowering (and were two weeks ago). 

 

Cutting under the tubers with a very sharp paring knife and bagging is in my
experience the best non-herbicidal method of control, but this cannot be
done on large-scale infestations.

 

John Ambler

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