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Sat, Aug 4, 12 at 21:45
| My lawn used to be overrun with wild violets. Over the past two years, I managed significant success by hitting them with weed b gone chickweed, clover and oxalis once a week for about 5wks each year. Now, I am only dealing with the occasional clump here an there. Now, I am manually removing these clumps. I am able to get at least an inch or slightly more of the thick main root. My question is whether this is doing anything helpful long term for eradication to prevent the wild violet from coming back into that area. Or is the root system just extensive. I spent a little over an hour doing this on my acre property, and I'd venture to guess I removed about 98% of all wild violets that were visibly growing in the yard. Pardon the long story, but any thoughts are appreciated. Thanks, Matt |
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- Posted by dchall_san_antonio 8 San Antonio (My Page) on Sun, Aug 5, 12 at 1:04
| We don't have that plant down here but I read about it a lot along with creeping charlie. Do the violets grow like a vine on top? If so you might have excellent success with this method: Stick about 6 inches of one strand of a vine into a bud vase with some RoundUp in it. Let that sit undisturbed for a week. Then check on it in 3 weeks to see if the entire plant is dead at the root. It should be obvious if the entire plant dies out. This method works with bind weed which vines and intertwines all over but stems from one root system. |
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- Posted by ranger481vs WI (My Page) on Mon, Aug 6, 12 at 21:15
| I don't really consider them vine-like, but here's a picture of the plant and then a close-up of the root. That's about the size of the root I get out, and then they have a lot of tiny capillary threads branching off from it. |
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- Posted by dchall_san_antonio 8 San Antonio (My Page) on Mon, Aug 6, 12 at 21:46
| I have heard that repeated apps of Roundup will work. Give it a chance to die from the first app. Then water daily for several days to see what survived or comes back from seed. Then hit it again.. |
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| I live in an area with woods on three sides, and Wild Violets are constantly creeping out of the woods and trying to establish themselves. Like the OP, I used CCO (Triclopyr) to deal with them. I found that pulling them out doesn't work well - you literally need to outlast the plant's ability to regenerate. Now, I just keep a 1-qt sprayer with CCO clipped on the mower every other week, and spritz the violets as I see them. Spot spraying works. |
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