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Last seasons carrots,
What happens when you don’t weed the garden,
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Woody Morgan
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Schwinn Stingray rear slick destroyer.Just be glad you don't have Goat's Head...........
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Nice crop of the common weed , Queen Ann's Lace. Here in Pa. ,we see it in late summer.
Resembles the Buffalo bur (Solanum Rostratum)that grew in my garden last year. I'll never use manure from the auction barns again. Must have been from some West Texas cattle.
The weeds I can handle.Those I can till under before they go to seed. It's the Bermuda grass that's taking over. Seems like tilling it is just spreading it.
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After Armageddon there will still be cockroaches and Bermuda grass.
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Looks like you will have some carrot seed soon.
it looks like a CALTROP to me!!? OUCH!!!Just be glad you don't have Goat's Head...........
Schwinn Stingray- man that's a blast from the past. Couldn't afford the Schwin. I had a Sears and Roebucks Spyder 20". And yes, the goat heads around central OK were death to all tires at one time or another. Slicks were the worst. Tried HD tubes and some green goop I put in the tubes. It helped some.
Should have some good seeds for next year's carrots.
ike
Should have some good seeds for next year's carrots.
ike
It took me about five years to get the goat heads and sputniks out of my yard.
Same thing: Tribulus terrestris - Wikipedia
But in Texas they have Sand bur: Cenchrus spinifex - Wikipedia. Nasty!
I planted a fall garden back in September, but nothing came up! The only thing I can figure is the soil just got too hot every day, in the heat of the day. Without frequent rain, it was too hot to walk on with bare feet for several hours each day for months. Anyway, I was so discouraged I neglected the plot for too long, and all I can say is that it was not too hot or dry for the weeds, which grew in profusion and variety. There is a particular kind of grass which I have not positively identified that is especially problematic, with stiff stems with nodes. These spread flat on the ground and put down roots at every node, while the seed heads stand upright. It isn't Bermuda. I don't know what it is, but it is prolific, hard to pull up, and impossible to annihilate. I finally got the rototiller set up, and decided to go over the entire plot with it once a week until time for early spring planting.
@Eutycus , you may be right. Here in Florida, we now have a plant called the "tropical soda apple." Florida produces more beef than Wyoming, but some knothead thought he needed to import a few head of cattle from South America, and they brought tropical soda apple seeds in their guts, and expelled them with their manure. That was in the eighties, and the tropical soda apple is now all over the state. It is so weird it looks fake, like a movie prop, with enormous thorns.
The other thing I learned the hard way is that "best management practices" for grasslands, as espoused by Florida's agricultural extension offices, include annual spraying with dicot-specific herbicides. This is applied to pastures and hayfields. These herbicides (e.g. PastureGard, Grazon...) kill broad-leafed plants, but "don't hurt" grasses or other monocots, and they are supposedly safe for animals to graze within hours of application. The problem is the animals ingest the chemical as they graze so it gets in their manure. Since the same chemicals are used on hayfields, the manure from hay-fed animals is also contaminated, not to mention the hay itself, if you think about using it for mulch. If you use that manure (or hay mulch) in your garden, you are effectively applying an herbicide to the soil in which you hope to grow vegetables. I did some testing a couple of years ago, using bean seeds planted in pots of clean soil and some with composted horse manure mixed with the soil, from animals that had grazed on treated fields. The compost was over a year old, and the seeds that were planted in it didn't even germinate. The seeds in clean soil, planted at the same time and given the same amount of sunlight and water, did great. People used to burn their fields late in the winter down here to kill weeds and bugs, and to remove the dead stuff. Not anymore. Better living through chemicals, you know. Not to mention the known cancer risk, this "best management practice" has really complicated home gardening.
Best regards,
Notchy Bob
@Eutycus , you may be right. Here in Florida, we now have a plant called the "tropical soda apple." Florida produces more beef than Wyoming, but some knothead thought he needed to import a few head of cattle from South America, and they brought tropical soda apple seeds in their guts, and expelled them with their manure. That was in the eighties, and the tropical soda apple is now all over the state. It is so weird it looks fake, like a movie prop, with enormous thorns.
The other thing I learned the hard way is that "best management practices" for grasslands, as espoused by Florida's agricultural extension offices, include annual spraying with dicot-specific herbicides. This is applied to pastures and hayfields. These herbicides (e.g. PastureGard, Grazon...) kill broad-leafed plants, but "don't hurt" grasses or other monocots, and they are supposedly safe for animals to graze within hours of application. The problem is the animals ingest the chemical as they graze so it gets in their manure. Since the same chemicals are used on hayfields, the manure from hay-fed animals is also contaminated, not to mention the hay itself, if you think about using it for mulch. If you use that manure (or hay mulch) in your garden, you are effectively applying an herbicide to the soil in which you hope to grow vegetables. I did some testing a couple of years ago, using bean seeds planted in pots of clean soil and some with composted horse manure mixed with the soil, from animals that had grazed on treated fields. The compost was over a year old, and the seeds that were planted in it didn't even germinate. The seeds in clean soil, planted at the same time and given the same amount of sunlight and water, did great. People used to burn their fields late in the winter down here to kill weeds and bugs, and to remove the dead stuff. Not anymore. Better living through chemicals, you know. Not to mention the known cancer risk, this "best management practice" has really complicated home gardening.
Best regards,
Notchy Bob
I had the Sears stingray with the chrome frame, high handlebars, and red flame seat with a sissy bar. I could pop a wheelie across the school parking lot. Fun times! Didn't have y'alls killer thorns in northern NJ.
Now, in Texas, we have mesquite trees, prickly pear cactus, and other thorns that will flatten your good times!
But, there ain't no Saguaro in Texas! Reverend Horton Heat - "Ain't No Saguaro in Texas" (Official Audio) - YouTube
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We call them Bindii here, just pulled my first few for the summer today in my yard.Just be glad you don't have Goat's Head...........
WARNING! If things do not improve those weeds will be on the
dinner plates!
dinner plates!
just use a lot of OLIVE OIL & VINEGER, and it will all be good!!. WELL MABEY??
