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My aquilegia’s are multiplying and ‘taking over’ my garden and spoiling it. What can I do to kill them off. I must have over a hundred of them.
- 5 May, 2018
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I find brute force works best for me. Just grab it by the crown and yank it out. It snaps off easily. A spade will slice though the main stem or a knife should take care of it. It's all gone in the blink of an eye.
6 May, 2018
As Bathgate says, they have a simple tap root, and an ordinary "snake's tongue" weeder does for them easily.
6 May, 2018
As above, pull them up. If you really think that the aquilegias spoil your garden then dead-head the ones you keep to prevent them seeding.
6 May, 2018
Wish we had only a hundred! I have pulled out more than that over the last few days just doing the lawn edges and weeding the first foot of the borders as I went along.
Wish pulling them out worked. Here it seems that any bit of root left in re-grows, like dandelions do.
6 May, 2018
Hmm...never had that happen with me, but Aquilegias are medium difficult in my area.
7 May, 2018
Annoyingly the only one which does not seed all over the place is A. ottonis which is a tiny blue and white species.
8 May, 2018
Weed killer?
5 May, 2018