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Anyway, I found some yellow hawksbeard in one meadow last year. It's
a horrendous noxious weed that will totally invade a hay meadow, if
given half a chance. I carefully mapped the location of the weeds,
then forgot all about it this spring. The stuff is *really* hard to
eradicate, because it spreads by seed _and_ by creeping rhizomes.

I've found the best way to eliminate the yh roots is to bunch the
foliage to one side in my hand, slide a sharp knife down into the soil
and slice through the root as deep as possible. Very few of them will
come back from deep cutting.

We stopped letting friends park their pickups and horse trailers on
the ranch, because vehicles transport noxious weed seeds in mud on
the vehicle frames so efficiently.

You should see how careful Australia is about that; hugely impressive.

Janet

About 50 years ago a neighbor about 2 miles away was able to acquire a
few truck loads of discarded sheep wool. The intent was to enrich the
soil. The result was we have a bunch of weird weeds just about
everywhere.

Hey, I use lots of discarded sheep wool in my compost heaps
(clippings from the shearing shed floor)
...no weird weeds have resulted, which is rather disappointing. What am
I doing wrong? :-)

Janet.

Give it a bit of time.

Bill

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