Yes, the garlic mustard is incredibly thick on the West side of Devils Lake
State Park, too. I was pulling it out a I was hiking along, and a guy asked me
why I was pulling out the pretty flowers. If you look into the woods near the
West side of the Northside beach looking West, there is nothing BUT garlic
mustard.
I think you're right about bike tires picking them up.
> From: [email protected]
> To: [email protected]; [email protected]
> Date: Mon, 31 May 2010 13:20:10 -0500
> Subject: Re: [Bikies] flowers along the SW path?
>
> From: Mitchell Nussbaum <[email protected]>
>
> > They *are* pretty flowers; that's why they got planted in gardens -- just
> > like purple
> > loosestrife, etc.
>
> Crown vetch, ox-eye daisy, shoot, we even met a guy who _planted_ reed canary
> grass
> because he found it "pretty".
>
> > Even so, they don't bother me as much as the groves of garlic mustard I see
> > along the
> > path, or the Japanese knotweed forest next to the Cemetery.
>
> Japanese knotweed roots can be extremely destructive. A family in England
> could not get a
> mortgage on their house because the roots of a massive JK invastion had
> undermined the
> foundation. If the JK forest (good name for it, Mitch) by the Cemetary
> weren't on a
> probably rather toxic rail corridor, it would be ripe for harvesting and
> turning into an
> herbal remedy (often prescribed for Lyme disease and its co-infections).
>
> Oh-oh, topic creep! Hmm... oh, the garlic mustard invasion along the Glacial
> Drumlin
> trail east of Deerfield is breathtaking; I honestly don't see how it could
> all be pulled.
> I also have to wonder how much bike tires and/or shoes carry the seeds into
> town, as I've
> seen it along fences behind residential yards that back up to the Isthmus
> path east of
> Olbrich Park.
> ---------------------
> Paul T. O'Leary
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