and of course, each year I'm buying live plants, watering them, and yet, after all that. the year after that, I bought the cattle panel to make arches to connect both raised beds, etc. first I bought the lumber, the cute little metal corner brackets, the soil. I feel like for 3 years now I keep sinking mo' and mo' money into vegetable gardening. He actually showed me that the roots of these things are going down at least a foot solid in both raised beds - I could see for myself that it's awful!! He actually recommended (if I want to garden this season) completely relocating the raised beds and starting over with fresh soil. Mugwort is apparently a very intractable problem. I admit I hadn't really examined them in months. What I came to realize just today is how bad of a "mugwort" infestation I actually have in those raised beds. & that I could immediately get started planting. Ugh.I'm so depressed! And here I was brimming with optimism just a few days ago. I was eagerly awaiting my asparagus crowns to come in the mail in anticipation that my young landscaper kid (who lives in my 'hood & does a great job on all tasks) was going to clear my raised beds of any weeds, etc. Once it takes over, it's a muthafuckah to get rid of.
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As soon as you spot even the smallest amount, get on it right away. Most mugwort infestations start with pretty flowers, tomato plants and shrubs you get from Lowes, HD and commercial landscape nurseries. If you don't have mugwort, and you plant new anything, keep an eye on whatever you just planted for a while.
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Let this be a lesson to ya'll who see this evil weed and wait to deal with it. The heat and blocking sunlight eventually kills everything. Just lay down a dark heavy tarp and leave it there for a couple few months. The lazy way to kill off weeds is to tarp them. After you killed off the top with chemical warfare, you have to wait for the bunker dwellers to pop up and pluck them one by one. It's a slow process, but it does work and is the end run of almost any eradication plan.
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It will eventually starve the rhizomes by depriving essential sunlight. Just keep pulling up as much as you can by the roots or cutting it as close to the soil as you can. It is possible to eradicate mugwort in a container without chemicals, but it's tedious. It may be easier in the long run just to dump the soil. By the time you actually kill off (most)everything, your growing season has passed. per-emergents do not work because the plant spreads primarily via rhizomes, a sprawling root system. You can try and kill it with roundup, but you have to kill and kill and kill because it keeps popping up. I'd have blamed the new infestation on the new shrubs I planted but the mugwort reemerged on the bed edges where some of the rhizomes were still present under the concrete.
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I dug out the entire 4x10 section 24" down and back filled with quality top soil. My mom had an infestation in a closed bed surrounded by concrete walk and driveway. Many suppressor companies make something similar that fits on suppressor muzzle device but advertising them as redirecting blast.Mugwort, aka mum weed is like super impossible to kill. With the blast from a short barrel and break. What they are nice for is things like tactical courses where you don't want to blast friends, range officers, barricades, paper targets etc. If it was anywhere close to hearing safe they would be advertising the sound reduction and make it by definition NFA territory. Many believe 140db is too high by the way and if it increases back pressure it may be increasing the port noise. The are not a silencer, not even close and no way below the 140db limit that is considered hearing safe. No real benefit in recoil reduction, or hearing safe. To me they take that obnoxious blast you get with aggressive breaks and/or short barrels and brings it back down to a regular unsuppressed, bare muzzle rifle with reasonable barrel length. Click to expand.I have a bunch of suppressors, and have played with blast cans, linear comps etc.