Re: Fern or Weed or Both - How to kill this weed please?
Tue Jul 03, 2018 5:10 am
Haha I was going to say, that’s not a weed — it’s yarrow!
Yarrow is resilient to mowing and light walking and grows into nice steppable lawn. It even blooms on teensy short stalks. I’m nurturing a patch to expand in my front yard.
In the backyard I have multiple patches of varying maintenance — some Are mowed occasionally, though not as regularly as the front, and some are grown in beds so I can harvest full size, unstressed healthy plant parts for herbal use like rainbowgardener mentioned.
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Re: Fern or Weed or Both - How to kill this weed please?
Tue Jul 02, 2019 8:17 am
Yarrow reseeds readily. You need to keep cutting off the flowers. I made the mistake of planting it once, I used Round Up, the roots are not that easy to dig up completely.
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Re: Fern or Weed or Both - How to kill this weed please?
Wed Jul 03, 2019 12:14 pm
You are in Hawaii where everything grows wild. In cold winter places, yarrow does fine and returns like a perennial, but it does not reseed very much and doesn't spread rampantly. I have had to pull other things, like lemon balm, which does tend to turn into a weed in the garden, but never yarrow.