Sunday, May 28, 2017

Strictly speaking this is an invasive weed but it says so kind of pretty call white top

Whitetip

2 comments:

  1. Looks like Queen Anne's Lace (aka Wild Carrot) which is edible, but I'd have to look closer to tell if it was actually Poison Hemlock which is not!

    http://www.ravensroots.com/blog/2015/6/26/poison-hemlock-id

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  2. My property backs up several acres of open space in the Dry Creek Valley. We've had a bumper crop of white top this year--thickest and tallest I've ever seen. My two small dogs (< 20 lbs) can't really even force their way through it. I agree, it is kind of pretty to look at, but I draw the line when it starts invading my lawn, which is hard enough to maintain already. So I went on a slash-and-burn campaign against the white top this spring, cutting it back about 40 ft from my property line before it went to seed, and spraying it regularly with Zamzow's Ultra.

    I asked a rancher up the hill how he controlled it on his land. He gave me a crooked smile and said "A mixture of WD-40 and RoundUp. One kills the flowers, the other kills the roots." And everything else! But I guess he figures the grass will come back next year and the whitetop won't. My HOA won't let me get away with his solution.

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