I weeded today and I am so sore so you know I burned some good calories today. I dislike these prickly weeds a ton. Here are the dumb things
Sorry the picture is so bad but I lost the memory stick for my regular camera so this is from my phone. These weeds literally grow like ‘weeds!” i swear i rip these out, by the root every couple of weeks.
I was getting frost warning alerts by the local weather company to my phone and it said “cover your plants or they could die.” Well why do these weeds not die! And they are very ouchy to touch. The tiny little prickly leaves hurt.
Well at least they are out for a few more weeks AND it did give me a workout outside since I have to use the big shovel to get deep enough under the root and bend over every time to throw them behind me. Then I rake them up in a big pile. 2 hours later I am done and hurt but accomplished something during my work out!
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Wow, I hate these thistles, too, and I have been fighting them for 20 years now. The best method I found is to pinch/slice them off at ground level so the leaves can't provide nutrients to the roots. Where ever you break the root of these devils, three more grow….they multiply exponentially from root stalk. So just slice off the stems at ground level when they pop up, then they'll start to diminish then die, and that way, they'll never get big enough to produce seed, neither.