[MAIPC] Garlic mustard again

[Pia van de Venne]

Hello Diane,
When the plant is completely dead, the seeds can be cut off, but then of
course seeds may fall off on the ground.
These ripe seeds can be pulled off with your hand, carefully almost closing
your gloves hand and emptying your hand in a bag. A glove is important
because the seeds can stick to your bare hand. Before the seeds are ripe,
the plant is not dead. When you cut the seeds off the plant will keep
growing.
I do have a question about this: when we accidentally break the root early
in the year, does it regrow in the same season to become a mature plant?
When this happens late in the season, will it regrow the next season? This
month I have already found big broken roots with tiny new growth.
Just interested in this, but it doesn't really matter because I try to get
them all out.
Garlic mustard and maybe all biennials will be true biennials when you
leave them alone without interfering in their growth.
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