<div dir="ltr">Hmmm. If you all say that I'm just being a worry wart, it must be true. <div><br></div><div>And, yes, I'm taking down a lot of flowering Persicaria right now, but I have no idea whether the whacking will be effective.</div><div><br></div><div>Thank you!</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Sep 14, 2018 at 10:53 PM, Rod Simmons <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:Rod.Simmons@alexandriava.gov" target="_blank">Rod.Simmons@alexandriava.gov</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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<div>I like Milo’s recipe for Microstegium, non-native Cirsium, and Kummerowia (one of my all time detested plants). Throw in Persicaria longiseta - the inexplicable, now-constant companion of Microstegium (almost as if Micro. morphs into a dicot along trails
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<div>Thr stilt grass will bloom ans seed anyway no matter how low or often you cut it. Unless you pull it. We gave up on cutting - thr only solution is to pull it- or if you really want to whack those old fashioned metal corrugated hand whacker are efdeceive
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<div dir="ltr">Yes, I guess I should have mentioned that I realized that plastic was being spread all over. But I wonder if you have discussed the ramifications of this. I have land that I am trying to restore, and I live in a floodplain. What are the ramifications
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