Saugeen Shores is encouraging people to take part in a local garlic mustard challenge to get rid of the invasive weed.
It’s a weed you likely have in your own yard or have seen in your neighbourhood.
There is a local Facebook group about it, and it explains that garlic mustard is aggressively invasive.
The group is doing a garlic mustard ‘pull’ event where people will gather first on April 17th, and then on Wednesdays from 2 p.m. to 4 p.m. until May 29th. (They note, you can take part for any amount of time).
The meeting place is Beiner’s Bush Trail at the Parkwood Drive Access at the west end of Piccadilly Drive.
Organizers say a garlic mustard plant can produce between 600 and over 1,000 seeds and can out-compete native plants, even releasing chemicals in the soil that can stop other plants from growing.
Organizers say the key is to pull the plants out before or during their flowering phase so they cant release their seeds.
They say it’s important to remove the entire root of the plant, and to not compost it, but to dispose of it in black garbage bags.
Another benefit of uprooting garlic mustard, is that it can be eaten.
