Boxwood Mites

[LeftHandLuke]

First thing you see in a pot plant.

Making a hometown boy proud!

 

[Attmos]

Making a hometown boy proud!

Speaking of that, are you part of the Columbus Club?

 

[LeftHandLuke]

Speaking of that, are you part of the Columbus Club?

I'm not. I've been meaning to get moving on that this year but have been too lazy. I think now's the time, though. Are you?

 

[LeftHandLuke]

Scratch that. Just joined!

 

[Shibui]

Thanks guys, especially for not laughing at the idea.

Oh, definitely sniggering out loud this side of the screen but that's beside the point. I'm all in favour of new and interesting ideas. Sometimes one will turn out to be right.

Your picture in post #17 shows 2 different weeds. The taller one appears to be a Euphorbia, probably E. peplis AKA Petty Spurge, Should have white latex sap when you cut or break the stem. Relatively easy to pull out but if flowers and produces seeds when very young. Seeds last in the soil for many years and will continue to germinate, making it seem that you can't win.
The other weed appears to be an Oxalis species. Several different species are weeds world wide now and really difficult to eradicate. Leaves have 4 lobes and look a bit like clover. Yellow or pink flowers followed quickly by exploding seed pods that can spread seeds several metres in all directions. They also produce runners that spread just under the surface to produce more plants. Oxalis also have tiny bulbs on the roots. When you pull the plant, the bulbs and any runners left in the soil will shoot and develop new plants which make them really difficult to eradicate.
First rule of weed control is make sure you remove any weeds BEFORE they set seed. Seed can survive for many years.
I managed to get on top of Oxalis and a couple of other persistent perennial weeds by painting the leaves with glyphosate whenever I saw them emerge - definitely before the weeds flower and set seed.

 

[Attmos]

Scratch that. Just joined!

Cool, I'll have to do that here soon.

 

[Attmos]

Oh, definitely sniggering out loud this side of the screen but that's beside the point. I'm all in favour of new and interesting ideas. Sometimes one will turn out to be right.

Your picture in post #17 shows 2 different weeds. The taller one appears to be a Euphorbia, probably E. peplis AKA Petty Spurge, Should have white latex sap when you cut or break the stem. Relatively easy to pull out but if flowers and produces seeds when very young. Seeds last in the soil for many years and will continue to germinate, making it seem that you can't win.
The other weed appears to be an Oxalis species. Several different species are weeds world wide now and really difficult to eradicate. Leaves have 4 lobes and look a bit like clover. Yellow or pink flowers followed quickly by exploding seed pods that can spread seeds several metres in all directions. They also produce runners that spread just under the surface to produce more plants. Oxalis also have tiny bulbs on the roots. When you pull the plant, the bulbs and any runners left in the soil will shoot and develop new plants which make them really difficult to eradicate.
First rule of weed control is make sure you remove any weeds BEFORE they set seed. Seed can survive for many years.
I managed to get on top of Oxalis and a couple of other persistent perennial weeds by painting the leaves with glyphosate whenever I saw them emerge - definitely before the weeds flower and set seed.

Um.. yeah. I think I'm thinking of Oxalis because it was like a green carpet of little green leaves on top of the soil. Someone must have let the flowers spread seed. Now that I know that, I almost fell sorry for the guy. lol
And now that I know I'll stay on top of them. Thanks.