"JoeSpareBedroom" wrote in message
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This weed, which we call "The Tumor" (in your best Arnold
Schwartzenager voice) is drivng us nuts. It comes on super fast,
grows super fast and returns after we pull it out. Its got prickly
edges. See phot link below.

Is there a chemical based weed killer that can take this out? Preen
did nothing to it. This weed just laughed at Preen.

http://ucemergencymedicineorg.siteprotect.net/weed.jpg


I murder the worst of them by digging REALLY deep around the root system,
lifting the whole thing out, and shaking off the soil.

I wait until after they flower (they're gorgeous in full bloom) and then I
lop them off before the stickers fully form and toss them in the creek...
they grow along the creek banks behind my barn and some in my rock walls. I
don't consider thistles as weeds when they grow where they're no bother.