[APWG] Mile-A-Minute, Polygonum perfoliatum

[Marc Imlay]

Three of us used garden rakes followed by hand pulling in Little Paint
Branch Park, Beltsville MD on 

June 22, 2007 and removed 20% of the massive 25' by 100' patch of
Mile-Minute in an open area 

in 2 hours. For example, the three volunteers in 15 minutes used the rakes
very gently to remove 

about 80% of the Mile-a-Minute in a 20' x 20' patch about 50% invasive vine
cover over 50% native 

cover including sensitive fern, asters, sycamore and sweet gum seedlings and
Virginia creeper. The 

herbaceous natives were not damaged and it was then easy enough to hand pull
the remainder in 

30 minutes. When we tried to pull very hard at another spot, native plants,
including a virgin creeper, 

were damaged. Hand pulling alone would have been seen as hopeless and
herbicides would have 

damaged the natives. Bio-control is having mixed success according to
reports. Cheers.

 

Marc Imlay

Laura Malick

Mike Breen 

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