Mutant plants

And the armidillos come with their own bowl like turtles.

i wanted a pet Lynx but my da said no

he's allergic to cats

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Originally Posted by abracax

Ok, so my wife and I have always had flowers we plant grow far bigger than they ever should and so forth, but this year our yard is out of control.

I brought home a rose bush that was almost dead, it is now 4ft tall and stays green during winter. My Japanese iris stays green all during winter and has grown from a 1ft radius to now around 3ft. We have wild grapes growing on our fence, they have taken over. We have rose of sharon growing, what usually takes 10-15 yrs, it has grown in 1 yr. Now we have all kinds of poisonous plants growing. There are two that we both recognize but we just cannot place, and we have nightshade growing. When we moved in to this house, the yard was very sparse in vegetation, it was almost complete dirt, now things are out of control even with pruning and digging things up. They are taking over lol


So, since this is the topic of discussion around our house lately, does anyone else have mutant plants growing or non-native plants taking over? If so, what type?

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Now, if you really looked into it, I think the answer would be obvious. I've seen this sort of thing so many times it doesn't even phase me anymore. Obviously there is a colony of little people living underground, pushing the plants upwards with their magic pogo sticks. What you need to do is hire John Travolta to steal Michael Jackson's body. Bury it in your yard and the chemicals should stop the plants from growing properly. Or, an easier approach, just bury a 100 pound block of rubber.

/end sarcasm

I've seen some pretty damn overgrown places in my time, but I've never heard of plants growing that well in winter. You could make some real money off this, enter in one of those contests where people compete for the biggest plants.

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Originally Posted by abracax

I sprayed weed killer where the poisonous plants are growing, they just got bigger. So chemical alteration of the soil is not going to work. As the soil where they are growing is odd, they are near evergreens which make the soil acidic, yet things that don't like acidic soil are growing like mad there and the evergreens are green as can be.

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Weed killer is overrated BS. Get some Roundup or another strong herbicide if you really want to get rid of them.

And raising the soil pH is different from poisoning the plants. It makes it harder for them to get nutrients, so they stop growing and even die, sometimes.

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Originally Posted by trogdor1316

Now, if you really looked into it, I think the answer would be obvious. I've seen this sort of thing so many times it doesn't even phase me anymore. Obviously there is a colony of little people living underground, pushing the plants upwards with their magic pogo sticks. What you need to do is hire John Travolta to steal Michael Jackson's body. Bury it in your yard and the chemicals should stop the plants from growing properly. Or, an easier approach, just bury a 100 pound block of rubber.

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I've seen some pretty damn overgrown places in my time, but I've never heard of plants growing that well in winter. You could make some real money off this, enter in one of those contests where people compete for the biggest plants.

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Yeah tell me about it, when everything is covered in snow, my rose and my japanese iris are still growing and the rose still blooms. Don't think I can win an award for biggest plant, but if they have one for strangest plants, I am sure I could get one of those lol


@Zenrax.....That would work except for one thing, I don't think the soil understand PH. As we have plants that make the soil acidic next to plants that don't like acidic soil, growing just fine next to each other. Also plants that need the acidity are growing in areas where the soil shouldn't be acidic at all. As a matter of fact, plants that acidic soil would kill, grow just fine in the same spot. The weed killer is roundup that I used. It killed the weeds that grow in the cracks of the sidewalk just fine.

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Originally Posted by abracax

@Zenrax.....That would work except for one thing, I don't think the soil understand PH. As we have plants that make the soil acidic next to plants that don't like acidic soil, growing just fine next to each other. Also plants that need the acidity are growing in areas where the soil shouldn't be acidic at all. As a matter of fact, plants that acidic soil would kill, grow just fine in the same spot. The weed killer is roundup that I used. It killed the weeds that grow in the cracks of the sidewalk just fine.

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Then your only real option is uprooting. You could cut them off at the base, but if these plants are as resilient as you say, they would probably just grow back.

They do just grow back lol

For instance, we get a weed that only grows in the south in our yard. The winters are supposed to kill off the roots if you don't get it all yourself. Yet every year we dump buckets full of this weed over a hillside, that we have uprooted.

I just find it funny is all, that we have our own jungle and can't get it to stop or even slow down lol

ooooooooo make a theeem park out if it!! you said the nehbor kids are always over there anyway. Call it ... idk... Alices Garden... yea thats a good name. and chrage ppl $1 to take home shoots or stuff you dug up so they can "grow it at home" and put in some cheesy rides so the parents have to come and watch their kids and then its not your fault if they eat stuff

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Originally Posted by CandleLite

ooooooooo make a theeem park out if it!! you said the nehbor kids are always over there anyway. Call it ... idk... Alices Garden... yea thats a good name. and chrage ppl $1 to take home shoots or stuff you dug up so they can "grow it at home" and put in some cheesy rides so the parents have to come and watch their kids and then its not your fault if they eat stuff

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LOL..........I like that idea

Incinerator nearby? We are currently fighting our own county about incinerators!