tasfleur
Community Member
In response to imastawka

on ‎19-09-2017 06:41 PM

"It grows if you peg it on the clothes line FGS!!" 

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lyndal1838
Honored Contributor
In response to imastawka

on ‎19-09-2017 06:59 PM

@imastawka wrote:

Lyndal, no point in trying to be PC about the name.

 

It's Wandering Jew - not Dew

 

https://www.google.com.au/search?q=wandering+jew&ie=&oe=

 

Have I mentioned how much I hate it?  (In the last 24 hours, that is)

 

It grows if you peg it on the clothes line FGS!!

Not being PC...Yates Garden Guide calls it Dew.

Whatever you want to call it, you can't kill it.  As I said at the start of this thread it thrives on a regular dose of weedkiller.

The only way I have ever seen it turn up it's toes is by letting it stand in water till it rots.  A closed plastic bag just acts as a greenhouse, particularly if it gets exposed to the air every so often.

 

And yes, we all know how you feel about it.Smiley LOL

imastawka
Honored Contributor
In response to lyndal1838

on ‎19-09-2017 07:11 PM

I had some mild success with kettles of boilng water.

But there was so much of it, I couldn't walk back and forth that many times.

 

Trouble now, is, it's intertwined with my Canna Lilies, so no boiling water now.

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lyndal1838
Honored Contributor
In response to davidc4430

on ‎19-09-2017 07:28 PM

How do you know David?   Have you ever been to Mars?

And have you ever tried to kill the plant?Smiley LOL

tasfleur
Community Member
In response to lyndal1838

‎19-09-2017 07:33 PM - edited ‎19-09-2017 07:34 PM

If I recall correctly, I'm sure that Wandering plant originated from Mars as they fled to earth to escape the triffids ...  Smiley Frustrated  the trouble really started when the triffids (like the Borg) also found their way to earth, assimilated the Wandering Jew plants and now they're hybrids;   so now they are known as the Wandering Borg plants, able to exist in any environment with or without oxygen ...  Smiley Sad 

go-tazz
Community Member
In response to imastawka

on ‎19-09-2017 08:30 PM

@imastawka wrote:

I had some mild success with kettles of boilng water.

But there was so much of it, I couldn't walk back and forth that many times.

 

Trouble now, is, it's intertwined with my Canna Lilies, so no boiling water now.

Maybe get a small artist type paint brush and dip it in straight Glyphosate and then cut a few bits of the plant

 

and put the straight weedkiller directly on it).

 

I've never had anything grow back where I used the straight stuff.

 

The Glyphosate you buy from Safeway/Woolies is similar to Roundup but a lot cheaper and it does the same

 

job.

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