Wild Violets

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Permalink Reply by Sandy Mitchell on April 2, 2009 at 12:37pm

I am waiting for replies to this also. The violets have almost taken over parts of our lawn and NOTHING I have tried has helped.

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Permalink Reply by Eve on April 11, 2009 at 12:50pm

I'd been digging up violets until I remembered an article in a long-ago issue of "Victoria" magazine. A woman grew violets for use in syrup, jelly, to candy for cake decorations, etc. Realized how much I'd miss the pretty flowers and I really do love violets myself so now I relocate them. They grow well under some trees and I much prefer them to some other kinds of groundcover.

I suppose if you really want to just kill them, besides digging them out (and you have to get the whole rhizome or whatever it is) you could spray them with a broadleaf weed killer.

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Permalink Reply by Sandy Mitchell on April 21, 2009 at 8:26pm

Hi Pedro,
I asked for something to use on wild violets at Family Tree Nursery and they recommended Weed Free Zone by ferti-lome. I sprayed it on yesterday morning (before the wind started blowing) and this evening I can see brown violet leaves. They said to be sure to spray again in 2 weeks even though you may not think you need to because violets are hard to get rid of. This stuff is pretty expensive but if it works it's worth it to me. Bye-bye violets, hello grass :)

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Permalink Reply by Pedro calderon on April 22, 2009 at 7:55am

how many tablespoons per gallon?

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Permalink Reply by Sandy Mitchell on April 22, 2009 at 8:54am

I bought the bottle with the hose-end sprayer because I needed to spray my entire yard so I didn't need to mix it. I think I will get 2 sprayings from the one bottle.

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Permalink Reply by Kathi Thies on May 10, 2009 at 12:46am

I feel your pain. I have fought them for many years under a walnut tree by digging them out. It is where I have a shade garden (not grass). This year they have really taken over and I'm going to have a new outlook on them and consider them a beautiful ground cover! If they only didn't get so tall and take over my other plants. The only area where they are not growing is where my various foster dogs run along the fence (and nothing grows there obviously).

good luck to you. They are not in my lawn (yet).

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Permalink Reply by Marian Mullins on May 10, 2009 at 3:55am

I now consider them free groundcover. I'm with Kathi, as long as i don't make the mistake of mixing them up with nutweed? or something like that, i've decided they are beautiful and a free gift from God. In other words, I give up! :)

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