Greetings All, We have been having issues with Artemesia (mugwort) spreading throughout the rental plots. If the gardener is not vigilant, it can rapidly achieve a very thick and tenacious hold on the plot. Weeding it out is often ineffective as it spreads through adventitious root sprouts - the more pulling, the more sprouts. I will try sowing a thick crop of annual rye grass as an attempt to crowd out the invasive. Has anyone else faced this or a similar issue and remediated with cover cropping or any other methods that met with success? Smothering with cardboard has not yielded effective results. As it is, I believe we will have to take the plot out of rotation next season in order to keep this plant from overtaking entire blocks of 10" x 20" plots. Thanks for weighing in!
Robin Hobson Market Master/Community Gardening Program Manager City of Bloomington Parks and Recreation 812.349.3704 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://list.communitygarden.org/pipermail/community_garden_list.communitygarden.org/attachments/20131003/1a9fb3e4/attachment.html> _______________________________________________ The American Community Gardening Association listserve is only one of ACGA's services to community gardeners. To learn more about the ACGA and to find out how to join, please go to http://www.communitygarden.org To post an e-mail to the list: [email protected] To subscribe, unsubscribe or change your subscription: http://list.communitygarden.org/mailman/listinfo/community_garden_list.communitygarden.org
