How do I get rid of Borage?

**BetterLateThanNever** · 05-26-2008, 01:35 PM

Hi all! and Happy Memorial Day!

Okay first off a warning

DO NOT PLANT BORAGE!

It's one of the most invasive herbs ever! Mom planted some in the garden to keep some garden pest a bay but the down side is definitely not worth it! The plant reaches a height of about 5 ft tall and spreads like a disease! Forget about digging it up you'll never get all of the root.

Any ideas on how to get rid of it? At the end of the growing season do I need to get one of those products that heat the soil and therefore purifies it?

thanks

**Frugal Nurse** · 05-26-2008, 01:47 PM

Squirt Vinegar at it.

DIE BORAGE DIE!!!

You may need one of those pumps though.

**BetterLateThanNever** · 05-26-2008, 01:56 PM

Okay but if is squirt vinegar at it won't it get into the soil and kill other garden plants?

**PrairieRose** · 05-26-2008, 02:16 PM

Well I'd squirt it right on the borage and be careful not to get it on other plants....I don't think it will have any lasting effects on the soil.

**Frugal Nurse** · 05-26-2008, 02:31 PM

Inject it into the stems with a needle and syringe.
(need me to mail you one? ;-) )

DIE BORAGE DIE!

If you call your local Extention office they may have an better idea. http://extension.osu.edu/

But that's what I did when we had a prolific Japanese vine that just was overtaking the place. After years and gallons, we finally tracked it down to a HUGE mother plant in the next yard. We told the CHINESE people who lived there~ that this was a JAPANESE invasive plant and they need to kill it.

Done. It's all in the way you word things.. I guess.

Vinegar. I LOVE vineger.

**ladykemma2** · 05-26-2008, 03:07 PM

it self seeds. like mad.

rip 'em out when babies.

**Frugal Nurse** · 05-26-2008, 03:21 PM

Burn it.
DIE BORAGE DIE!

**Persimmon Lace** · 05-26-2008, 06:08 PM

Wow, my borage never did that! Now the mint and lemon balm, that's another story! So I can't help with getting rid of the borage!

**BetterLateThanNever** · 05-26-2008, 06:27 PM

LOL Frugal Nurse you are too funny!

**Frugal Nurse** · 06-14-2008, 03:56 PM

I just came across this post - in search of my tomato experiment... and I wondered... how the heck the Borage is doing? (hopefully 'lack of Borage' is doing?)

Please update if you can.

**geoffann** · 04-30-2009, 04:49 PM

Hello,

we have major "borage" problems..Does the vinager work...Thanks

**Judi Dial** · 04-30-2009, 05:34 PM

Geoffann,

If you're anywhere in New England, can you give me some? I can't keep it alive here, it just sprouts and then dies....

PM me.

Thanks, whether we can help each other out, or not!

Judi