help me rid my garden of unwanted garlic

Does anybody know of a remedy to get rid of garlic that has taken over my daylily garden? It has come very invasive and have tried digging, pulling and a few choice words! I am reluctant to spray with weed killer because it is in my lily garden but will roundup or ? kill most of it as long as I don't get it on other plants. It seems this would be perfect time to spray with something. Any help would be appreciated.

Sounds like you're not eating/giving away enough garlic!

I didn't know garlic became invasive or are you talking about the wild allium? or garlic mustard?

My question too...

Wild Garlic is very imvasive believe me, once you have it, very difficult to remove and the task becomes very intensive.

We have it growing here West Coast Scotland and it is running through my woodland garden, comes into flower about June, jest as the Bluebells finish flowering.

What I did to remove it (not a fast job) I dead headed the flowers every time I notice one in my flower borders, this prevented the flowers spreading their seeds even further. Then I began to scrape away the soil at the base of the stems, the long white bulb an inch long, came up with a tug, I burned the plants as I got a bucket full.

If you get to the garlic before it flowers, use a small garden fork and stick this in half inch away from garlic stem, then prize the soil / bulb up and the bulbs come out very easy,
Until you can move along the border / flower beds, keep dead heading the plants as the tiny green seeds grow and germinate at the rate of lightening so it's easier IF you can keep the flowers away, don't worry so much about the foliage, it's the sees that are the problem due to how fast they germinate
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As far as I know, the bulbs are NON edible however, I crush the foliage and rub it around my wooden salad bowl when I'm mixing a salad for the table, it smells nice, even walking in my woodland, the wild garlic gets onto your socks /shoes ect, even the animals stink of the stuff in summer just by walking through it.
Some folks like the smell others hate it, so it depends on your taste like all plants, it also helps keep the biting flies at bay.

The other way to go when your trying to get rid of the garlic in among your plants is to use the killer but, try use it before the foliage of the other plants grow taller than the garlic, use an old make-up brush to paint the killer onto the garlic's foliage, the foliage is very soft so you would only need to paint maybe 2 leaves per bulb, crush the leaf in your hand to damage it and this way the killer will be taken down to the bulb faster, you know it has worked when the foliage turns yellow. ware rubber gloves for this IF you want to go that way. still continue to dead head the flowers as they apear so next year you have less plants to cope with.
Sorry I'm not a lot of help Krista but it's not a single days job, it could take you maybe a couple of years to get rid or at least get control of this plant, growing in the right place, woodland, it can look attractive but agree, not in the flower beds. I've been there, done it and got the t shirt but it takes time and determination and you will win.

Best regards and good luck. WeeNel.

If it's a bulb that smells of onion/garlic, with onion/garlic foliage, it is an Allium, therefore edible. Not all Alliums are palatable, due to flavor or textural issues, at all times of the year, and not all people would appreciate the flavor of all, but Allium = edible. I've found 3 types in this yard, all delicious. The much defiled A. canadense is delicious, especially the young bulbils. Decorative flowers = bonus, IMO.

http://www.eattheweeds.com/allium-canadense-the-stinking-rose-2/