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Garlic Mustard
This is the time of year the garlic mustard in my yard is either under control (by my pulling them) or out of control because I’ve given up. This year I pulled hundreds of them out.
Here is someone who has come upon a unique way to control them. She eats them. Jennie includes a recipe for Garlic Mustard Pesto. Please note her cautions about eating weeds, however.
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a great idea and a great photo of garlic mustard to go along with it…. yours i mean. might be interesting to try making garlic garlic mustard mustard. if only we had some garlic mustard here. i have to admit i didn’t even know what garlic mustard was until this morning.
That’s the weird thing about garlic mustard…It just appears one year… in huge quantities. By the time you figure out what it is, it has released about 500 seeds per plant. It seems to run its course in about three or four years. I am hoping that either it will be gone from our area next year or I will have lots of recipes for it.
so strange. i never knew this. does it grow throughout the yard like dandelions?
Well, it does grow in lawns but it gets mowed. It spreads like crazy under trees since it does well in the shade and flower beds get taken over by them. The only way to get rid of them is to pull them.
There was a movement around here the last couple of years to get volunteers to pull them in forest preserves.
after reading your blog, i searched my yard for garlic mustard, but found none. i really do like jesse’s garlic garlic mustard mustard idea though. i should shoot some photos of all the weeds i have and send them to you, just for the heck of it. i don’t have any grass, just weeds and my garden. i’ve just let the weeds grow, just because it’s something growing.
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