If you're trying to grow your own vegetables, chances are you've run across Ice Cream Weed. It's a common garden weed that can be found in almost any US locale and in many other countries as well. It's a pesky plant that thrives in the wintertime by feeding on your harvest of sweet potatoes before they're ready for harvesting. They'll go after your tomatoes, peppers, and grapes as well but because they prefer sweet potatoes they'll do this on your fresh fruits and vegetables before you even get around to trying to harvest them. It's kind of a sneaky pest that seems to only want to take your organic produce until the summer comes so you can eat it all and you didn't have to fight it off this whole season.
What makes Ice Cream Weed such a nuisance? Well, to start off with, they like a lot of shade and if there's not much of it in your area they will settle in and go to work cultivating their seedlings under the cover of the shade. Another thing they enjoy is dark, moist areas. Runtz carts are a particularly difficult type of weed to try to control because they are very persistent and a simple sprinkling of repellent should keep them under control most of the time. But even when they are gone they can produce an abundance of berries in an extremely short amount of time so a little help is necessary to keep the local wildlife happy.
When trying to get rid of Pinky, or any other varieties of the Ice Cream Weed, you must first locate them. They are somewhat hard to find because they don't tend to form obvious masses on the ground. Instead, they tend to be sunken in the earth creating a sort of blue-black backdrop. You can easily locate them by either picking up on their scent, a far-off sound from the ground or simply listening for them. Some plants may have a different type of odor associated with them than others, so if yours does not, look for another plant.
Once you have located your ice cream weed you need to treat it appropriately. This means that you should either pick off as much as you can or dig it all up. Attempting to dig it all up yourself may result in killing the plant or at least slowing its growth rate and therefore the weed itself.
Most plants will die from being directly exposed to sunlight so try to direct as much of the sunlight as possible away from the plant. You can do this by placing several pots on the grass and leaving them out in the sun. The soil in the pots will act to absorb all of the extra sunlight and freeze during cold days, which will kill the ice cream weed pretty quickly. Try to put as much of the soil on top of the grass as possible as well to retain as much moisture as possible, but remember to water the soil as soon as it starts to get too dry.
If you find that you have a lot of ice cream weeds in one area then you may want to consider using a weed killer. Ice cream weeds are notoriously tough, even when treated correctly they are still tough for a time. It is recommended that you pull the weed before using the weed killer on it because it can potentially burn the plant. If you follow these steps to find and remove an ice cream weed it should make your gardening life a lot easier.
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