Garden Plants | Disposal Of Invasive Yard Waste Is Everyone’s Responsibility
Many garden plants are becoming invasive or become invasive as a result of unsafe disposal practices, the Cariboo Regional District’s invasive plant management department says in a recent release.
Unwanted plants in your garden should not to be disposed of by simply throwing the material in the empty lot or green space next to your lot.
If the plant is persistent in any way shape or form, it will recover from the initial shock of being uprooted and begin growing in its new home.
There are many vacant areas within residential settings where yard waste has begun growing and spreading into the adjacent land, outcompeting native plants and reducing habitat and food sources for native birds, insects, and animals. Once these plants become established, and especially if they are one of the more invasive horticultural varieties like Himalayan balsam, knotweed, mountain bluet, dame’s rocket, or goutweed, it is extremely difficult to control them.
Here are a few key points to consider and follow if you have plant material in your garden that you either know is an invasive plant, or is showing invasive tendencies within your garden:
Remove unwanted plant material before they go to flower, or next best, before they go to
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