How do you get rid of the "wild onions" in your flowerbed and yard?

I am overwhelmed by the amount of wild onions coming up this year. The problem - you can't possibly pull them all up so is there anything you can treat them with that won't kill the surrounding flowers and plants?

How do you get rid of the "wild onions" in your flowerbed and yard?
We have these and I love them! (Of course, my garden doesn't grow much else.) They're good to eat. :)





Here's an snippet of an article I found on the Internet about ways to get rid of them, though:





The earth friendly way to deal with wild onion is just to dig up the clumps. If you try to pull them up you'll just tear off the tops and they'll be back to haunt you.





Now to make your job easier, soak the area you are going to work in the night before. When you make your cut with the shovel, push it as deep into the ground as you can, close to the plant.





If you have a heavy infestation of wild onions, you may have to resort to using chemicals such as 2, 4-D, a herbicide that kills broadleaf weeds as well as wild onions. It should be applied with a sprayer and more often than not it will take several applications to kill the first generation. You'll also need to do this again next year to destroy the next generation that's now dormant.
Reply:I have the same situation as you.





Normally I just pull them but this year there are thousands of them. In my lawn I will just mow them to death %26amp; in my flower beds and borders I have sprayed them with roundup. They turned yellow %26amp; died to the ground so I hope they are dead.
Reply:Make sure when you pull them out that the roots don't break off.





Sure it's not wild garlic?
Reply:i live in UK we don't have wild garlic or onions .. but some nasty weed .... i used weed killer .. its chemical u mix with water and spray them they die for good .. try in the garden centres they might sell weed killer ..