[MAIPC] Garlic mustard again

[Diana Carter]

Thank you Pia. That makes sense. 

Diana Carter

On Apr 17, 2021, at 8:22 PM, Pia van de Venne <pia.parkprotector at gmail.com> wrote:


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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