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| I don't think our state cares about this kind of weeds 
There are wide areas around me full of it. I highly doubt they will do anything. |
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haha ok, my neighbor said that she thought i should report it.. oh well. |
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 DrStrangeTechnically feasiblePremium
join:2001-07-23
West Hartford, CT
kudos:1
1 edit | reply to CTMustang
»www.hort.uconn.edu/mam/contacts.html
If the leaves are triangular, it might be mile-a-minute and they'd certainly want to know about it.
»www.hort.uconn.edu/mam/speciesID.html
From the look of your photos, I don't think that's what you've got, but someone might be able to tell you what you do have and how to control it, if necessary. |
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 KommiePremium
join:2003-05-13
united state
kudos:2 | reply to CTMustang
Try them too:
»www.ct.gov/caes/cwp/view.asp?a=2812&q=345010 |
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 GrumpyPremium
join:2001-07-28
NW CT
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4 edits | reply to CTMustang
Like the good Dr. said - mile a minute they want to know about. Weeds are one of my day to day "friends" as an estate caretaker. There is another fast growing weed in these parts with a similar triangular leaf, but it's leaves are not quite the equilateral leaf the mile a minute sports. Every photo of the mile a minute I've seen shows a very nearly perfect 3 equal sided leaf.
This one
Horse tail
Has come to roost and nearly over power our home flower garden. Why it's not an invasive is beyond me. Weeding it by hand is a near impossibility, for the hairlike roots run across and just under the soil, and break easily when pulled. I'd like to spot nuke it with Roundup, but our grandchildren (and ourselves) like to walk the soil in question, so that's a no go. Horse Tail spreads by spore, and if you look up the word "nuisance' in the dictionary... It's also poisonous to horses - just to ice the cake with it's "goodness."
I'd kinda like to call in an Agent Orange airstrike on the little sh---, but don't think the neighbors would take to kindly to living in a 4 acre sand lot.
I've done some camping near Cherokee and Nantahala Gorge in recent years. The Kudzu thing there - Holy Chr--- in a chicken basket - Now that's what I call an invasive species.
Kudzu house
A little off topic - a viable threat for this region -
»www.emeraldashborer.info/
I also camp near the Finger Lakes - The Ash Borer is already there. Ash as firewood is plentiful there. Not a good thing. There is a 200 plus year old Ash within a few feet of the house where I work here in CT. It has been treated so as to protect from an onslaught of said Beetles, if (hopefully) those treatments do work. It would surely be a shame to lose that old noble giant. It would cut part of the heart and soul out of that mid 1700s main house. |
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well
I cut em all down again. |
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mcevoys
join:2002-02-06
Ridgefield, CT | reply to CTMustang
Looks like knotweed...tough stuff to get rid of...cutting it down just makes more shoots come up. Roots can go down many feet as well.
Best bet is to cut it down before it flowers, and pour ground clear/vegetation killer down the hole in the short stalks |
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