New Update: Garlic Mustard Treatment
Summit County will be retuning to our neighborhood to spray for garlic mustard between September 20 and October 7th. They will be following up on places and treating areas they may have missed. This is a state funded project and SP is a hot bed for this evasive and disruptive plant. It has the potential to drastically affect our native species. Please contact Mindy Wheeler, wheelermindy@yahoo.com and make arrangements if you haven’t had your property assessed and or treated.
Thank you,
Mike Quinones
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Is this indesciminant ditch spraying or specific to observed growth? I am very anti-herbicide due to its ever present collateral damage to other plants, insect life, avian, and small animal including our dogs, not to mention polluting of our water runoff. If spraying is the best option, I would resort to manual removal where the plant has been actually observed instead. We also have honey bees greatly affected by this knee jerk reaction. Please rethink the use of this toxin in our neighborhood. Oh, and did I mention, we also have people living here whose whole body burden of ubiquitous toxins are off the charts? There are better methods of control.