Hi! Anyone know how to get rid of it? I've got one that's 4' x 4' and 5 other fledglings. They are nowhere near each other. Thanks, Mary
Burdock Arctium
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They have a really long tap root. If you don't get it all, it will come back.
Hey Pastime, I know, I dug it out last year!! Here's it's little brother about to eat my aruncus!!
Well, I've painted the underside of it's leaves with fairly concentrated roundup. I'll wait 10 days and then paint the lower leaves. Hope this works!
It should work. I have too many growing in our pasture. The poor horse gets so many burrs in his tail it looks like one big dread lock.
Pastime, A Rasta Horse??? I don't know which would be worse, killing the Burdock or trying to care for the poor horse's tail! Do you braid it?
I found some burdock growing in a few of our flower beds.
If I paint roundup on the leaves, will it kill everything else around it, or will my other plants be okay? I don't want to do anything to kill off the plants I actually want growing in my beds.
wwicks, a DGer gave me great instructions last year for killing it. I started with the top leaves first and applied it to the undersides of the leaves with one of those sponge on a stick paint applicators. Then left it alone for a week. Next week, I did the same to some of the leaves further down and left it alone for the next 10 days. Finally, another application to a few of the large base leaves and let it sit for another 2 weeks.
Nothing was killed around it. I poured some Roundup in a plastic cup and pressed the applicator against the inside of the cup to squeeze all excess off of it. Only a few very light swipes of the undersides of the giant leaves did the trick. If you have one of those little plastic bottles with a sponge cap for wetting stamps, that would be useful. I didn't have one and actually felt that I could control the paint stick sponge's absorption properties better.
It was then very easy to dig out and nothing has come back. About three weeks after the last application, I planted in that ground and the plants are fine. Good luck.
If yours are not the size of that giant one, then two applications should do it. They are biennials and you don't want to let it go to seed.