Controlling Wild Garlic In Your Garden

Once wild garlic gets established in your flower borders it can be a real problem to control. Digging it up is one option but often works because wild garlic seems to be able to establish itself from the smallest bulb or part of a bulb or root that’s left in the soil after digging

As the climate changes it is starting to favour different plants. One such plant that’s doing well with the changes is wild garlic a great plant for use in cooking the leaves can be wrapped around meat and fish but in the garden, it can soon become invasive. It’s difficult to control with normal weed control methods as it grows in-between your existing garden plants but with the use of a weed stick and Roundup weed killer it’s easy to target the wild garlic without affecting any of your garden plants and minimal damage to the environment 

Another method of control is to lay some weed sheeting in your borders to smother the wild garlic. This takes around 12 months to kill the wild garlic and the weed sheeting can be covered with bark mulch etc to improve the look 

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