My favorite method to control garlic mustard is with prescribed fire. Not only does it kill the weeds and their seed in the soil, it stimulates fire adapted native plant…
Category: Plants
Plants form the base of the food chain. A healthy and diverse plant community not only looks good, it also means more and more diverse wildlife for your property.
For those who refuse to use herbicide to kill garlic mustard and other invasive plants, there is the weed torch. It uses propane flame to kill young garlic mustard…
This week is your chance to Roundup garlic mustard before spring wildflowers start to appear. This invasive plant from Europe forms dense mats in woodlands and along edges that poison the…
These beautiful pear blossoms along your local roadside or in that vacant lot could be the beginning of a very ugly invasion. Wild Bradford pear trees are knocking at Wisconsin’s…
The University of Wisconsin Extension Weed Sciences program has released a new video about invasive species in Wisconsin. It tells what they are, why they are a problem, how they…