Comments on: Resilience, thy name is goutweed

By: Diana Dyer

Sat, 13 Jun 2026 02:08:20 +0000

Nikki please post an updated link to the article you wrote on the Troy Built website or even a new article about solarizing on your website. Thanks.

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By: Jonathan Dean

Sat, 08 Jul 2023 21:01:45 +0000

Any further news on nasturtiums?

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By: Tina

Fri, 13 Jan 2023 19:01:33 +0000

In reply to Susan.

I just ordered some seeds and will post later this year. Keeping my fingers crossed. I have gout weed on both sides of our property. Our young neighbour on one side was so dismayed to hear what a terrible plant it is.
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By: Susan

Mon, 18 Jul 2022 09:13:09 +0000

How did the Nasturtium work for anyone who tried it?

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By: Susan

Mon, 18 Jul 2022 09:11:04 +0000

In reply to linda conway.

How is the Nasturtium working? I’m going to put down double black landscaping material but not counting on it working entirely.

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By: Bill

Mon, 20 Jun 2022 13:14:46 +0000

In reply to Bls.

I’m reading your post in June, 2022. I have one of those “volcano” torches you mentioned. Did you have much success with it against the goutweed? Had you mowed the plants at all before starting? That might keep the fire hazard you described so well under control by limiting the material to be burned.

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By: Pat Pickens

Tue, 17 May 2022 20:28:10 +0000

In reply to Lynn M Ayres.

Good news, Lynn. What’s your zone and how much rain do you get?
Does anyone think periwinkle could choke out goutweed? Just a desperate idea…

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By: Nancy Mardhaw

Tue, 17 May 2022 18:44:18 +0000

In reply to Lynn M Ayres.

My neighbor has the same, but green goutweed. It is beautiful. BUT, the goutweed has grown under her mowed grass to our shared wooded property line and invaded my property. I now have a huge problem. In the backyard her goutweed grows taller than the ferns and has stampeded into my garden. My areas are now smothered and topped with leaves. This has created an enormous amount of work for me with no certain outcome.

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By: Claire

Sun, 15 May 2022 00:11:40 +0000

In reply to Kate.

Sad that roundup is even on the market.
Devastating ecological product that has caused more harm then good.

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By: Jenn

Sat, 14 May 2022 02:35:05 +0000

Dealing with goutweed as well!! I’ve been digging it up consistently for years now. I hate the stuff! The owners of the land 30+ years ago planted it and it’s trying to take over our garden.
We are digging a border around the whole garden and using very thin coated aluminum to keep it out. It’s not permanent, because the thought of metal in the ground freaks me out- but it will block it long enough for me to eliminate it inside my garden. With that being said- DUCKS LOVE GOUTWEED! And they will eat all the leaves and anything sticking up out of the ground of the gout weed. They actually eat the rhizomes like spaghetti too. We built their duck run on two sides of our garden, the worst of the areas where the goutweed is. If I have to, I’ll extend it all the way around the garden, I just don’t want to have to do that if I don’t have to. I hand dig almost daily in the spring, so hopefully with the ducks, the metal around the garden & the hand digging, I’ll eliminate it eventually!

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