How can gout weed be eliminated?

Answer 1

Extreme light or shade, herbicide schedules, severe cutbacks, and soil solarization are ways to eliminate gout weed. The Aegopodium genus in question may be controlled by exposure to deep shade or to full sun. The perennial in question also reacts fatally to the buzz-cuts of severe mows or trims and to suffocation from non-organic or organic mulches and weighted down black plastic sheeting.

Answer 2

Mowing and solarization are ways to rid gardens of gout weed. Buzz cut-style, extreme, severe, weekly mowing schedules initially may prompt quick regrowth but by the end of the mowing season gout weed cannot withstand the constant stress of relegating other life-sustaining priorities such as photosynthate and seed production to second place after regaining proper mature growth habits lost through all too many trims. Solarization requires covering the gout weed patch with heavy, weighted-down black plastic, whose heat absorption ultimately bakes the underlying vegetation to death.