Japanese Knotweed and Garlic Mustard Garlic mustard, knotweed, and what it means to cook from a damaged landscape Every spring in the Northeast, the edges wake up first. Roadsides. Fence lines. The soft margins of woods. The neglected corners of gardens and fields. Before summer abundance arrives, you start seeing the early push of green again. Some of it is welcome. Some of it is not. Garlic mustard comes up fast. Japanese knotweed follows. Later on, wineberry will show itse