My compost also love them. I kill them before they can let their spawn infest
medfordjared
I had Mullein show up in my yard a few years ago. I let that one plant mature since everything seemed to love it. I have been pulling it’s babies every year since.
garis53
Seeing the golf course lawn hurts me more than any invasive can
Civil-Mango
I knew this post would get the pro-mullein activists riled up before I even clicked on the comments lmao
MarshyHope
Inb4 the holistic medicine people come to talk shit about you
There’s too many people here defending Mullein. There are no invasive plants that I want to keep. Mullen is one of the easier one to control, so everyone should do what they can to get rid of it. I like how Purple Loosestrife looks. That doesn’t mean that I won’t kill whenever I can.
OpinionatedOcelotYo
You can’t be pro-invasive non-native without being pro-extinction. Permies often doing us all a great disservice.
CRZ42
I’ve got two mullein plants, windblown seeds for the neighbor who had one. I was unaware that it was an invasive plant let alone non native in zone 6B I rarely find it in the wild or in the burbs, guess I’ll cut the flower stalk before it goes to seed.
They are nowhere as bad as tree of heaven, which I have been fighting for 5 years in my yard.
effRPaul
I hate it because it takes over every spot where there is a clearcut deep in the forest at high elevations where there should only be native plants.
PS I hate mullein’s defenders because I have NEVER EVER NOT ONCE seen one of them out there in the woods pulling this shit
Realistic-Reception5
Ugh I get so annoyed by *those* permaculturalists. Do they not know that there are so many native plants they can grow for nature, beauty, food, and medicine?
R_G_ME
A big Thank you, from 8a (Decatur, GA)
I can’t believe how far this stuff has been spread, but found it in Dekalb County GA by a local forager group. We have SO many invasives in Dekalb Co, we don’t need this too! Sheesh
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I_crystallized
Keep up the good work!
Midir_Cutie
Are those the ones with the soft leaves like lambs ear?
biasedsoymotel
Ugh this is how I feel about Tree of Heaven. My city is INFESTED with them and saplings are everywhere.. Very tempted to just rampage rip them out whenever I see them
black_truffle_cheese
Had to look that up. Not sure if I’ve seen it.
The teasel, Japanese honeysuckle and Bradford pears are choking out everything by me.
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cauliflowercoochie
welcome to atlanta 😭
ReimuTwT
I don’t hate it – Because I live in Europe where it’s native lol 😅 Instead I hate Solidago gigantea and canadensis(because it’s invasive in my country – Poland and they also can hybridize with native solidago virgaurea), japanese knotweed and other invasives in my country.
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babiegiiiirl
How do I make friends so someone will come help me pull a couple hundred mullein in Colorado. I pulled over a hundred last year by myself but srsly could use the help!
nlevend
This is me but with bellflower when I’m walking the dogs in my neighborhood, my wife hates it and thinks it’s embarrassing that I’m pulling the weeds around everyone’s fences, but bellflower has gotten out of hand in the twin cities the last few years.
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Sacramento Food Forest is that you? 😂
My compost also love them. I kill them before they can let their spawn infest
I had Mullein show up in my yard a few years ago. I let that one plant mature since everything seemed to love it. I have been pulling it’s babies every year since.
Seeing the golf course lawn hurts me more than any invasive can
I knew this post would get the pro-mullein activists riled up before I even clicked on the comments lmao
Inb4 the holistic medicine people come to talk shit about you
https://www.fs.usda.gov/database/feis/plants/forb/vertha/all.html
Look out for the witches curse LOL
There’s too many people here defending Mullein. There are no invasive plants that I want to keep. Mullen is one of the easier one to control, so everyone should do what they can to get rid of it. I like how Purple Loosestrife looks. That doesn’t mean that I won’t kill whenever I can.
You can’t be pro-invasive non-native without being pro-extinction. Permies often doing us all a great disservice.
I’ve got two mullein plants, windblown seeds for the neighbor who had one. I was unaware that it was an invasive plant let alone non native in zone 6B I rarely find it in the wild or in the burbs, guess I’ll cut the flower stalk before it goes to seed.
They are nowhere as bad as tree of heaven, which I have been fighting for 5 years in my yard.
I hate it because it takes over every spot where there is a clearcut deep in the forest at high elevations where there should only be native plants.
PS I hate mullein’s defenders because I have NEVER EVER NOT ONCE seen one of them out there in the woods pulling this shit
Ugh I get so annoyed by *those* permaculturalists. Do they not know that there are so many native plants they can grow for nature, beauty, food, and medicine?
A big Thank you, from 8a (Decatur, GA)
I can’t believe how far this stuff has been spread, but found it in Dekalb County GA by a local forager group. We have SO many invasives in Dekalb Co, we don’t need this too! Sheesh
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Keep up the good work!
Are those the ones with the soft leaves like lambs ear?
Ugh this is how I feel about Tree of Heaven. My city is INFESTED with them and saplings are everywhere.. Very tempted to just rampage rip them out whenever I see them
Had to look that up. Not sure if I’ve seen it.
The teasel, Japanese honeysuckle and Bradford pears are choking out everything by me.
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welcome to atlanta 😭
I don’t hate it – Because I live in Europe where it’s native lol 😅 Instead I hate Solidago gigantea and canadensis(because it’s invasive in my country – Poland and they also can hybridize with native solidago virgaurea), japanese knotweed and other invasives in my country.
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How do I make friends so someone will come help me pull a couple hundred mullein in Colorado. I pulled over a hundred last year by myself but srsly could use the help!
This is me but with bellflower when I’m walking the dogs in my neighborhood, my wife hates it and thinks it’s embarrassing that I’m pulling the weeds around everyone’s fences, but bellflower has gotten out of hand in the twin cities the last few years.