[MAIPC] re garlic mustard

[Pia van de Venne]

Hello,
I am surprised that almost nobody has mentioned that cut off or broken
garlic mustard grows back with roots that are 1-2 inches thick, long
spreading roots that break off in the soil and when you miss the one
side root which is 5 inch long it will grow again.
 Big and small plants will grow back into huge and big plants. When they
have been pulled and broken twice the plant gets so large that you need a
shovel to get it out..This year the GM is incredible here in Western PA.
In our area we cannot leave the plants on the trail or on a log in a pile.
Some of them will grow again. If you spread them out on a log or rock
before they get seeds, they can dry up. and either bagged after that or
just left in the woods on that log or rock.

Leaving bags with the entire pulled plants on the trail to pick up later is
possible:: they will rot in the bag, or they dry up and the bag becomes
lighter.

I also ask regular hikers to carry a couple of bags down the trail to the
dumpster.
We also put barrels on several trails for hikers to put their GM in. A
couple of volunteer collects those every week.
Pia van de Venne
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