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I have something that comes up in my flower beds constantly. Any time I turn the soil and plant something, all around it this "whatever" comes up too. It takes over very quickly. Someone told me that it's some type of oat. It does not flower, grows close to the ground like a ground cover, and has very shallow roots. In one area where there was a lot, I started at one end and rolled it up like a carpet. It goes away for a while, then comes right back. I ended up putting down plastic in a few places several months ago, but looking out my window, I can see it peaking through where the plastic must have separated. I have sprayed and removed it 10 or 12 times. What can it be? And, what can I do?
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Jiffymouse
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papito, that looks like what we have always called "dollar weed". but dollar weed is a wet, sandy soil kind of weed.
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i should clarify, the picture papito posted looks a lot like dollar weed. i think that sheri's has smaller, thinner leaves?
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Can't tell if the leaves are as shiney as in Bestofour's picture??? And the ends of the plant look close??? but not completely sure???? Do they form differently?
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Someone said it was creeping jenny but I haven't seen a flower. Maybe I start spraying and pulling before it has time to flower. I've been given a recipe of borax to kill it.
Amor est vitae essentia. Love is the essence of life. Plants: 932 | From: Northern California, Zone 9b | Registered: Jul 2003
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Bestofour, I have creeping jenny, and it's not what I know as creeping jenny! I actually saw that weed for sale at a garden center in the city when I went to the one perennial place I go to, that was one of the ones' I looked at the owner going, the things they'll sell!!!!!
But, I saw a way they did it in a pot, at a different place, and what a nice idea it was, and you can put that stuff in a bowl and it'll collect with water and it'll still grow!! Very Happily I might add!!!
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The leaves aren't shiny and I've been watching it and it does have a tiny, purple flower. I read somewhere to spray 20 Mule Team Borax on it. I'm gonna try that.
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