Many
people like to see them spread; many of those same people thought they did, but
then changed their minds while on their hands and knees pulling them out of
where they didn’t want them to be.
There is
a way to keep them in check.
First
off, know that you will be spending time in the Black-eyed-Susan’s patch; but
how much time, that’s up to you.
Yes, you
could wait until things get bad; kill a whole Saturday working them down to a manageable
horde. Or you could just clip off the flower heads after the last of the yellow
pedals drop off.
The
seeds grow in the big black dots; cut off the big black dots and you remove the
seeds, no seeds, no new Black-eyed-Susan’s sprouting everywhere. Now all you
have left is the original crown (or crowns, depending how many you planted).
These
crowns do grow out and get wider, but at a tremendously slower pace than the scattering
seeds. It seems that every seed that gets blown in the wind, or gets deposited
through a bird, sprouts where it lands. Sometimes it’s a wanted plant, most
times it’s not; and when it’s not there’s grunt work to be done.
Be a snipper
not a puller.
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