MOST WANTED: Garlic Mustard DEAD, not alive! Pull Garlic mustard, now, in the next two weeks, while it is in bloom, before it produces seeds. Eat the leaves and flowers and/ or dry out the rest of the plant in the sun on hard scape to kill it before composting. This invasive Eurasian herb is delicious in a salad, pesto, or pickled, but left to grow here, it is a hazard to our local environment, changing the soil chemistry to discourage native plant growth and appearing earlier in the spring than our native plants, producing huge volumes of seeds that rapidly take over large areas and produce seed banks without adding to the food web. If you find and pull this plant, please visit the area every spring to savor it’s flavor and remove it from our ecosystem. DO NOT compost plants once they have gone to seed, or you will inadvertently move them to a new place. Pull, enjoy and eradicate them now, or wait until next spring. Garlic mustard are frequently found in recently disturbed soils and woodland edges, but can multiply to quickly take over woodland areas, since they flower before many deciduous trees leaf out.