The plant secretes toxins that kill beneficial soil fungi, which most plants need to thrive.
That explains the bluebells.
Humans are the only animal that will touch it.
That explains a lot.
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The plant secretes toxins that kill beneficial soil fungi, which most plants need to thrive.
That explains the bluebells.
Humans are the only animal that will touch it.
That explains a lot.
Yeah, if only the deer would eat it - goats do - as I recall @goat-girlz (sp?) hired out their herds.
The problem is that garlic mustard shades the new sprouts or seedlings of other plants.
Also each plant produces about 10,000 tiny seeds, all of them viable.
If only ascelpius tuberosa, the beloved orange butterflyweed, were so viable! Or hoary puccoon. Or any number of natives I cannot get to spread here.
I'd be far more tolerant of GM if it didn't kill everything in its path.
Here's to garlic pesto!
They really hate it in Washington state! If you see something, say something hate it.
https://www.kingcounty.gov/services/environment/animals-and-plants/noxious-weeds/weed-identification/garlic-mustard.aspx