Very interesting, I have no ideal what that is. I would suggest taking it to your locol
nursery and ask them what it is, they usually will find out for you. Let us know when you find out. Loved the title of the vid, lol. I was expecting something totally different.lol x 100
Sounds like wildflowers..that seeded from somewhere else...I will send this vid to my friend.. that knows weeds and wildflowers...well perhaps..he can tell me.
Yes i sent him your vid..and he said..yes...looks like wild onion...you have work to do...just start picking..hehe.....and use a cushioned kneeler...to save your back..funny i am working on his community garden video from his open house and i was just eating the wild onion from his garden when he was letting us sample some...coinkidinc huh? Maybe it keeps the bugs and opossum away..? Oh well..
There are different types of chives. There's the garlic chive - looks just like what you show as well. Also stinks! My dogs dig them up and boy do they smell!
If you leave them, the shoots, they could later flower, in midsummer. Not all, but some do. And they spread and spread as you describe. I think you've got a garllic chive.
chris I think they are Allium onion genus, with about 1250 species, making it one of the largest plant genera in the world look that up they can be a beeyatch to get rid of
in memphis they grew like that in clods lol i have the little ones here all over my yard i thought oh who cares i will just mow over them my grandma hated them they were the big clumps like yours hey i think you can eat them but dont till you check into it
Thankyou so much for your help Bryan. My garden used to be so pretty until these nasty devils moved in! Oh well. They are part of nature I suppose. Have a great day. luv ya!
Grrrr Oh I am with you on this one, I dont have those but we have other weeds that I just can not get rid of but I read this past winter about taking wet newspaper shreds and putting it all in your garden and it wil keep the weeds away. I am going to try that here in the next few weeks and see what happens this summer. Those things definitely look like a neusance! Wish I could help and tell you how to get rid of them.
I have no idea what they could be Chris.. Never had that problem.. I googled wild garlic but it doesn't look like what you showed... Don't you hate it when You are trying to make a video and someone keeps interrupting or "peeking"? LOL
I am guessing it's wild garlic Chris. You can either pull out by hand to get rid of it or if you have some Round Up (weed killer) put on a glove (one that can be thrown away) and spray some of the Round Up on the glove and then touch the ones you want to get rid of with the glove. That will kill just those plants and nothing else in your garden. I had to do this last year and it worked like a charm!
I haven't got a clue, but I don't think they're wild onions. Leastwise they're not the type of wild onions we have around here. The wild onions here all have bulbs which look more like an actual tiny onion than those do. Plus there won't be more than 2 or 3 to a cluster. Usually there's just one. It would have been easier to identify if you had shown a more mature plant. (((HUGS)))
LOL, no it wasn't a ribbing. I'm pretty mature....at least in years....myself, LOL. And here I was resisting the urge to say it's better to have a sexless situation in the garden than in the bedroom, LOL. (((HUGS)))
Yes Lisa, seems he is correct as are some of the others that have commented. I just wish I had known not to dig them up. My arms and back are paying for it! Hugs!
Sorry, I have no advice for you since we haven't had a garden in about 10 years, but "sexless bulbs" is my new favorite phrase. Happy late birthday in case you didn't see my comment on your last vid :D
wow, the tops sure look like when an onion starts to sprout after it has sat a bit too long, doesn't it? well I know nothing here about gardening special pests, but I'm wondering if they are edible to add to dishes like one would garlic, onions, or chives? hmmm. first I thought you said they had sexless balls. lol darned those little Italian birds! sorry no help here but I had to comment on your sexless situation going on in the wild flower beds. Susan
I just went downstairs and checked. At this point in the year I could not find any onion grass. The other Newyorkgardener recommends "Weed n' Feed" or a lawn fertilizer equivilant, to discourage the growth of onion grass by enhancing the regular lawn.
But, it is not in my lawn..it is in my flower bed a fenced section of my backyard about 12'x12'. I have all wild flowers and am thinking perhaps they came in a pack of multiple wild flower types. I think the flower was white.
The leaves are I believe round and hollow, but there is also another type which have a small white stripe down the "flat" leaf center. Good grief...garlic & onions???!!
I forgot about wild garlic also! More or less the same as onion grass/ wild onion.
A bit tedious, but the way to get it out of the flower beds is to pull it by hand. Which is crazy! Because that encourages the smaller bulbs to grow!!! However, you can control them at least(with hand pulling) even if you can not eliminate them.
Wild garlic and wild onion are closely related and similar in appearance.
The easiest way to tell the difference is that wild garlic's leaves are hollow, while those of wild onion are not.You can eventually get rid of them if you dig them out with a trowel. But you have to be relentless; as soon as you see a leaf sprout, dig it out.
Any tiny offset bulb or even piece of bulb left in the ground will resprout into a new plant. It could take years to eradicate them this way, but it can work.
They may have come back with a vengeance because you left lots of small bulbs behind, or pieces of bulbs, when you pulled them out by hand. It is more effective to dig them out with a trowel to make sure you get the bulbs
My mother had several varieties of something wild like this in her yard but it all got tiny flowers -- some were blue and some white, both similar to daisys and another was yellow, similar to a daffodil. We just let them alone and mowed them down with the grass!
It's called onion grass. Not so easy to get rid of it! When you pull up a mature bulb, it just gives a chance for the smaller bulbs to grow in their place(which you have already discovered).
I have no idea what they might be Chris ..... not a clue............ but just to sound intelligent Im gonna agree with Pippilliy and say it might be garlic...of a sort ; )
Hhhh, well they aren't an onion or a cross between an onion and garlic because those bloom. Maybe try tasted one of the bulbs a little. Could be a garlic of sort, I really don't know. But they must me male as they have kept us guessing for years! ROFL bad joke ha!
I'd say it's wild garlic. If you let to grow it will have a flower. I can double check with my brother who has a nusery. Roundup works for me. Just take a little paint brush or make-up brush and dip in roundup and just touch the plant you want to die.
When they are small, just the lightest touch with the brush will get them. Do that once or twice a week for a few weeks and they will be gone. I use to get this coming up through my ground cover ivy. It worked and no hoeing/digging on my part. Happy Birthday happy gardening.
Be careful Teed! That is how my squirrels became and then he bit me and I had to get a tetnus shot!! I don't feed them anymore. Litte buggars probably planted these sexless bulbs! luv you!
Chris, I think they're male from the looks of them. LOL. Um, even chives have a purple ball flower on top before they go to seed. So maybe wild garlic bulbs. Sorry not sure. Have to go feed my squirrels as they have eaten through the screen in the window!! If ya don't feed them they will chew their way into the house. Good luck with that bulb thingy..Google it!
if it's spreading, it's obviously not asexual. if it was it would live once and die. perhaps a weed...
PlatyMoos 10 months ago
I think the aliens plant them overnight
:-)
x hugs x
twish1999 3 years ago
Oooh...I never thought of that twish! :-D
Hugs!
bugsinrug 3 years ago
Very interesting, I have no ideal what that is. I would suggest taking it to your locol
nursery and ask them what it is, they usually will find out for you. Let us know when you find out. Loved the title of the vid, lol. I was expecting something totally different.lol x 100
Lauren:)
justwant2bhappy 3 years ago
lol. Thanks Lauren. We are quite sure that it is wild onion mixed with wild garlic. My garden certainly doesn't smell like roses!
bugsinrug 3 years ago
that sounds like a great mix to cook with.
I love garlic and onion.
Lauren:)
justwant2bhappy 3 years ago
I know...I have ingredients for a pasta sauce right in my garden! Well..the spices for it anyway. Hugs!
bugsinrug 3 years ago
Sounds like wildflowers..that seeded from somewhere else...I will send this vid to my friend.. that knows weeds and wildflowers...well perhaps..he can tell me.
MamaM
mamamialove 3 years ago
I am pretty sure mama, that I have wild garlic and wild onion. But I appreciate your help and am anxious to see what your friend has to say. Hugs!
bugsinrug 3 years ago
Yes i sent him your vid..and he said..yes...looks like wild onion...you have work to do...just start picking..hehe.....and use a cushioned kneeler...to save your back..funny i am working on his community garden video from his open house and i was just eating the wild onion from his garden when he was letting us sample some...coinkidinc huh? Maybe it keeps the bugs and opossum away..? Oh well..
hugs
mamaM
mamamialove 3 years ago
hee hee....you are so sweet. Thankyou for your help mama! Hugs!
bugsinrug 3 years ago
can you eat wild onion? Maybe you have a veggie/flower garden mixture? lol
If you grow garlic between flowers it lowers the population of nasty flower eating bugs.
baybea 3 years ago
Really? Thanks for the info Bea! :-)
bugsinrug 3 years ago
hmmm that is a strange looking weed maybe?
Serramist 3 years ago
Yes...and it stinks! :-(
bugsinrug 3 years ago
That looks like a chive
ladypn 3 years ago
But it isn't. At least..I don't think so. :-)
bugsinrug 3 years ago
There are different types of chives. There's the garlic chive - looks just like what you show as well. Also stinks! My dogs dig them up and boy do they smell!
If you leave them, the shoots, they could later flower, in midsummer. Not all, but some do. And they spread and spread as you describe. I think you've got a garllic chive.
GetWellSlowhand 3 years ago
Hmmm...interesting. Thanks!
bugsinrug 3 years ago
it looks like plain old green onion.wild onion grass thats aged to me we have that everywhere here i will look into it tho also
GoretexRobo 3 years ago
Yes, would you please Bryan? My poor little wild flower garden is such a mess now. I have dug it up and I think made it worse. Hugs!
bugsinrug 3 years ago
chris I think they are Allium onion genus, with about 1250 species, making it one of the largest plant genera in the world look that up they can be a beeyatch to get rid of
GoretexRobo 3 years ago
in memphis they grew like that in clods lol i have the little ones here all over my yard i thought oh who cares i will just mow over them my grandma hated them they were the big clumps like yours hey i think you can eat them but dont till you check into it
GoretexRobo 3 years ago
Thankyou so much for your help Bryan. My garden used to be so pretty until these nasty devils moved in! Oh well. They are part of nature I suppose. Have a great day. luv ya!
bugsinrug 3 years ago
Grrrr Oh I am with you on this one, I dont have those but we have other weeds that I just can not get rid of but I read this past winter about taking wet newspaper shreds and putting it all in your garden and it wil keep the weeds away. I am going to try that here in the next few weeks and see what happens this summer. Those things definitely look like a neusance! Wish I could help and tell you how to get rid of them.
Huggs
B-)
notsob75 3 years ago
Thanks Boston. Wet newspaper? Hmm..might have something to do with the ink in it? Interesting. Hugs!
bugsinrug 3 years ago
I have no idea what they could be Chris.. Never had that problem.. I googled wild garlic but it doesn't look like what you showed... Don't you hate it when You are trying to make a video and someone keeps interrupting or "peeking"? LOL
mysteryglo 3 years ago
It's wild onion more than likely Judy. They look similar. hee hee .. yes he frightened me at the window! xox
bugsinrug 3 years ago
you can take some to your local Nursery and they can maybe tell you
baybea 3 years ago
Thans Bea, but I am sure it is both wild onion and wild garlic. :-(
bugsinrug 3 years ago
I've had sexless bulbs for years, and there's just nothing I can do about it.
robertpina99 3 years ago
Oh my. That is a terrible problem... so sorry. :-D Hugs!
bugsinrug 3 years ago
Quite annoying. I have these HUGE bulbs that I've been digging up lately, about 6+ inches down. Ugh. Good luck Chris. =)
nbwulf 3 years ago
It's so frustrating isn't Jason?!
bugsinrug 3 years ago
I am guessing it's wild garlic Chris. You can either pull out by hand to get rid of it or if you have some Round Up (weed killer) put on a glove (one that can be thrown away) and spray some of the Round Up on the glove and then touch the ones you want to get rid of with the glove. That will kill just those plants and nothing else in your garden. I had to do this last year and it worked like a charm!
Bikermom69 3 years ago
Great idea..thanks!!
bugsinrug 3 years ago
I haven't got a clue, but I don't think they're wild onions. Leastwise they're not the type of wild onions we have around here. The wild onions here all have bulbs which look more like an actual tiny onion than those do. Plus there won't be more than 2 or 3 to a cluster. Usually there's just one. It would have been easier to identify if you had shown a more mature plant. (((HUGS)))
Blinkazoid 3 years ago
What that a middle age ribbing? "a more mature plant"? lol. hugs, Chris :-D
bugsinrug 3 years ago
LOL, no it wasn't a ribbing. I'm pretty mature....at least in years....myself, LOL. And here I was resisting the urge to say it's better to have a sexless situation in the garden than in the bedroom, LOL. (((HUGS)))
Blinkazoid 3 years ago
(((Blink)))
bugsinrug 3 years ago
I have no clue Chris, but it seems you found some answers thru NewYorkGardner! Good Luck!
mtamorphis 3 years ago
Yes Lisa, seems he is correct as are some of the others that have commented. I just wish I had known not to dig them up. My arms and back are paying for it! Hugs!
bugsinrug 3 years ago
Looks like you have some wild onions? Maybe?
JeepGirl2 3 years ago
I think so, and also wild garlic. Thanks!
bugsinrug 3 years ago
Thermonuclear devices will cure that problem, but it is hard on the house paint.... vbg
PappyStu 3 years ago
Hmmm...explosives...yes.. :-D
hugs Pappy!!
bugsinrug 3 years ago
Sorry, I have no advice for you since we haven't had a garden in about 10 years, but "sexless bulbs" is my new favorite phrase. Happy late birthday in case you didn't see my comment on your last vid :D
Bean829 3 years ago
ha haa ! Thanks Beanie and thanks also for your birthday comment too. Hugs!
bugsinrug 3 years ago
That thing looks really wild - like something out of Little Shop of Horrors or Invasion of the Body Snatchers.
Wish I had an answer for you!
(((Chris)))
OhCurt 3 years ago
Yes, they are starting to frighten me Curt as they just keep mulitiplying! Hugs! :-D
bugsinrug 3 years ago
Chris it looks kind of like wild onions to me maybe?I dunno But thats what I thought when I seen it.
angel28607 3 years ago
Thanks Tracy I think it is both..wild onion and wild garlic :-(
bugsinrug 3 years ago
Have no idea what it is - just stopping by to say Hi. But to be honest, sexless anything always has my sympathy.
dl737 3 years ago
Chug-a-chug-a Chug-a-chug-a Woo Woooo!
bugsinrug 3 years ago
wow, the tops sure look like when an onion starts to sprout after it has sat a bit too long, doesn't it? well I know nothing here about gardening special pests, but I'm wondering if they are edible to add to dishes like one would garlic, onions, or chives? hmmm. first I thought you said they had sexless balls. lol darned those little Italian birds! sorry no help here but I had to comment on your sexless situation going on in the wild flower beds. Susan
tunisianswife 3 years ago
Ha ha haaaaaaa... thankyou Susan. Hugs!
bugsinrug 3 years ago
Chris,
We have those around here also; they are wild onions.
Tinkerlove13 3 years ago
Thanks Tink. :-)
bugsinrug 3 years ago
I just went downstairs and checked. At this point in the year I could not find any onion grass. The other Newyorkgardener recommends "Weed n' Feed" or a lawn fertilizer equivilant, to discourage the growth of onion grass by enhancing the regular lawn.
NewYorkGardener 3 years ago
But, it is not in my lawn..it is in my flower bed a fenced section of my backyard about 12'x12'. I have all wild flowers and am thinking perhaps they came in a pack of multiple wild flower types. I think the flower was white.
bugsinrug 3 years ago
The leaves are I believe round and hollow, but there is also another type which have a small white stripe down the "flat" leaf center. Good grief...garlic & onions???!!
bugsinrug 3 years ago
small white strip sounds like onion to me sweet but sound like you may have both :(
kayceprincess 3 years ago
OOps!
I forgot about wild garlic also! More or less the same as onion grass/ wild onion.
A bit tedious, but the way to get it out of the flower beds is to pull it by hand. Which is crazy! Because that encourages the smaller bulbs to grow!!! However, you can control them at least(with hand pulling) even if you can not eliminate them.
NewYorkGardener 3 years ago
Wild garlic and wild onion are closely related and similar in appearance.
The easiest way to tell the difference is that wild garlic's leaves are hollow, while those of wild onion are not.You can eventually get rid of them if you dig them out with a trowel. But you have to be relentless; as soon as you see a leaf sprout, dig it out.
kayceprincess 3 years ago
Any tiny offset bulb or even piece of bulb left in the ground will resprout into a new plant. It could take years to eradicate them this way, but it can work.
They may have come back with a vengeance because you left lots of small bulbs behind, or pieces of bulbs, when you pulled them out by hand. It is more effective to dig them out with a trowel to make sure you get the bulbs
kayceprincess 3 years ago
We got them alot by our pond.. they seem to like well watered areas :)
kayceprincess 3 years ago
Thanks so much roz. :-)
bugsinrug 3 years ago
My mother had several varieties of something wild like this in her yard but it all got tiny flowers -- some were blue and some white, both similar to daisys and another was yellow, similar to a daffodil. We just let them alone and mowed them down with the grass!
liz1060 3 years ago
Thanks liz !!
bugsinrug 3 years ago
I wonder how much they weigh - heavy or light - they could be light bulbs cos they never flower either
randomwritings 3 years ago
Light bulbs? ha ha ha haaaaaaaaaa!!!
Oh, Brian go cook something devilshly delicious. Hugs!
bugsinrug 3 years ago
I made spicy bean burgers with hot chilli sauce and home made naan bread - will that do?
randomwritings 3 years ago
Hi Chris,
It's called onion grass. Not so easy to get rid of it! When you pull up a mature bulb, it just gives a chance for the smaller bulbs to grow in their place(which you have already discovered).
As Nancy said Google it! -Onion grass
Happy Birthday!
NewYorkGardener 3 years ago
Oh man...thankyou! I am subbing to you as well. I might need further help. Hugs!
bugsinrug 3 years ago
I saw that before but not so big! I will talk to Arthur (NewYorkgardener) and maybe he can help! ;) Kiss!
f3xpgm 3 years ago
I can always help with a kiss ;)! lol
NewYorkGardener 3 years ago
I guess she will appreciate also!
f3xpgm 3 years ago
Thanks sweetie! Hugs & Kiss!
bugsinrug 3 years ago
I have no idea what they might be Chris ..... not a clue............ but just to sound intelligent Im gonna agree with Pippilliy and say it might be garlic...of a sort ; )
Billy....xx
payit4ward 3 years ago
Thanks Billy..I think I have found the answer from NewYorkGardener. Hugs!
bugsinrug 3 years ago
Hhhh, well they aren't an onion or a cross between an onion and garlic because those bloom. Maybe try tasted one of the bulbs a little. Could be a garlic of sort, I really don't know. But they must me male as they have kept us guessing for years! ROFL bad joke ha!
Pippilly 3 years ago
Ha ha haaa! Good one Pip! Hugs!
bugsinrug 3 years ago
I can't comment because the sexless bulb part makes me think of many, many things...
PS The tip about the roundup is what I do too..
LilCav68 3 years ago
Hee hee..thankyou Maria! Hugs!
bugsinrug 3 years ago
I'd say it's wild garlic. If you let to grow it will have a flower. I can double check with my brother who has a nusery. Roundup works for me. Just take a little paint brush or make-up brush and dip in roundup and just touch the plant you want to die.
AnneMarie96 3 years ago
Oh, good idea ..thanks. But will it kill all the ones coming up under it...there are thousands!! Hugs!
bugsinrug 3 years ago
When they are small, just the lightest touch with the brush will get them. Do that once or twice a week for a few weeks and they will be gone. I use to get this coming up through my ground cover ivy. It worked and no hoeing/digging on my part. Happy Birthday happy gardening.
AnneMarie96 3 years ago
Thanks so much AnneMarie!
bugsinrug 3 years ago
Be careful Teed! That is how my squirrels became and then he bit me and I had to get a tetnus shot!! I don't feed them anymore. Litte buggars probably planted these sexless bulbs! luv you!
bugsinrug 3 years ago
Chris, I think they're male from the looks of them. LOL. Um, even chives have a purple ball flower on top before they go to seed. So maybe wild garlic bulbs. Sorry not sure. Have to go feed my squirrels as they have eaten through the screen in the window!! If ya don't feed them they will chew their way into the house. Good luck with that bulb thingy..Google it!
Love ya, Teed
nancyleeould 3 years ago