Thread: improving potato crop; thistle in horsemanure
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Old 11-06-2008, 09:55 PM posted to sci.bio.botany
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Default improving potato crop; thistle in horsemanure
wrote:

Whereever I apply horsemanure it seems as though the thistle springs
up.

Rather than thistle being attracted to manure, likely the spading brings
the thistle seed to the surface of the soil. Many small seeds like that
need light to germinate.

M. Reed
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