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Nashville, TN

Let's all have some fun and vent about our particular weed problems!

Currently, I'm having plentiful 'crops' of Lambs Quarters & Water Hemp - growing in my turnout paddocks, newly seeded paddocks, amongst the Sunflowers and in the Flower gardens. Glycophosphate herbicide isn't doing much - so I'm having to spray the large pasture areas with a Broadleaf herbicide.. But these two damned weeds germinate and reach Calf-height within three weeks after each application!!.. In the Sunflower and Flower Gardens - I'm handpulling every 2-3 weeks.... Seems that Water Hemp may be the 'natural' food source for the Cuk Beetles and fireflies - as they are covered in them..

My MAIN BITCH is RED SORREL... It's EVERYWHERE!! The Buffalo Grasses & St Augustine Grasses in the fields seem to help control it (and the grasses are edible)... But you can hit it with the strongest mix of Glycophosphate + Broadleaf - seems you just burn it's leaves - then it comes back within two weeks... I've had luck in the Pumpkin patches by keeping it's top 'burned down' and then when the pumpkin vines encroach upon that area - I cover with heavy paper + mulch... But even the goats don't really like this weed!

7/8/2006 5:43:06 PM

San Luis Obispo, Ca.

What kind of weed's? In Humbolt Co. Ca, that's a whole different matter

7/8/2006 6:03:39 PM

Nashville, TN

Any weed you want to Bitch about! I'm sure there's growers in your region that would like to know how your particular battle is going!!

7/8/2006 6:57:39 PM

[email protected]

Day Flower, Crabgrass, Fox-tail, Maple saplings & Smartweed are biggies here but since I have no pumpkins here at home this year I am indiscriminately hosing them down with Roundup Pro every 2 weeks. HA!

The school was donated enough sterile potting soil to bury the weedy soil...No weeds.

7/8/2006 9:46:45 PM

Ohio

Milk Weed!! Guess thats why I have Milk snakes?,,, what you think Wex? No seriously, I have Milk weed out the Kazoo!

7/9/2006 4:37:59 AM

Ohio

Oh, try using a weed eater on this stuff with out a shirt and glasses on , its a HOOT! as Doc Gipe would say.

7/9/2006 4:41:15 AM

Eastern Pennsylvania

lol skid-mark

7/9/2006 12:29:26 PM

Eastern Pennsylvania

last year I used cow manure and got thistle. This year horse manure gave me mostly grasses. Grasses are easier to deal with. Plus we've had that invasive ivy weed that Tremor was talking about for the last few years I think they call it mile a minute or something.

7/9/2006 12:33:00 PM

Follansbee, Wv

If the grass in my yard grew as fast as the grass in the patch, I would be mowing every day.

7/9/2006 1:10:44 PM

Beach Park, IL.

In my gardens, I always get stuck with purslane, lambs quarters, crabgrass, maple saplings, ragweed, thistles, field bindweed, garden nightshade.....

7/9/2006 2:50:21 PM

[email protected]

Nightshade & Lambsquarters here too..how did I ever forget?

7/9/2006 4:20:35 PM

Garden State Pumpkins

crabgrass...Yikes grows overnight gets two feet tall...Using G's method of turnng it over as green manure before the plant reaches it. also invades my new lawn if theres a bare spot I got crabgrass.

7/9/2006 9:14:03 PM

[email protected]

Don't let crabgrass get too tall. Each single crabgrass plant will make 2000+ seeds most of which will be viable next year. ALWAYS kill crabgrass before it makes seeds!

7/9/2006 11:30:19 PM

Nashville, TN

He, he... we call crab grass - St Augustine grass.. Took over the pasture years ago - along with native Buffalo grass.. But after I realized that these two grasses are well-liked by all of my livestock, can handle overgrazing easily, and will grow in the midst of drought conditions - I chose to leave them...

Just have to overseed with cool-season forages like clovers & Rye - everything turns BROWN on the first frost!

I keep those two 'invasive' grasses 'at bay' with Round-up (It's still fairly effective against them) & using the paper + mulch method..... Tried Preen and other 'crabgrass preventers' - still weeding just as often as before I used them....

7/10/2006 8:58:13 AM

Little-TON - Colorado

Yep, I got mutiple varietys of THISTLE at the Nursery, lots of morning glories too but the roundup zaps the 2mile rooted glories pretty good. But the roundup barely phases the Thistle and I hate em. Purslane at home patch bigtime..but none at the nursery?????..the purslane seems to come in with the cow and compost and just loves to grow....it flowers and reseeds fast as the seeds are microscopic and plentiful......they are good to eat though.

?? How soon can one plant after using roundup sprayed around??? Ive read folks here use it ahead of the vine....ANy worries?

7/10/2006 9:54:51 AM

Waquoit Mass

jutras hoe got to have one

7/10/2006 2:31:19 PM

Beach Park, IL.

I heard that you can eat purslane as well.

7/10/2006 2:35:02 PM