Weeds

37chief · Jul 24, 2017

I have noticed a lot of different weeds around the place the last few years. Most of them are not too bad, but there is one what I a call puncture vine. It is a flat plant that has real sharp thorns. I believe some call them bull head thorns. Another is a grassy bush with the same kind of thorns. That plant is about a foot high. The thorns stick to your pants. One must have fallen off my pants today. The dog had one in her mouth. Probably stuck to her foot, and she pulled it off. The weed seeds come from when I work for others. I blow my equipment off when I am finished working for others., but not enough I guess. I can see where these plats would be a real problem in a farmed fields, or cattle range areas. You guys have any of these plants? Stan

RBoots · Jul 25, 2017

Yes. We farm land owned by a packing house. Cattle come from all over, bringing who knows what with them. They spread the manure on the fields we farm around it, we combine it, and it spreads. We got a terrible infestation of Jimson weed last year. We have a few in the corn this year, that you cant see to pull out, but got most of them eradicated with spray everywhere else

Brendon-KS · Jul 25, 2017

What you know as puncture vine or bull head I've always called "goat head". Nasty stuff. This is a common weed in SE Colorado and growing up I had to get solid tubes (is that an oxymoron?) in my bicycle because the tires would have always been flat otherwise. We have some of it here in central Kansas and I find it along the edge of the no-till field that surrounds our property. I try to dig it out when I see it and , if it has seed already, take the whole plant to the burn pile. Driving through it with the mower is a good way to track it around.

David from Kansas · Jul 25, 2017

Like Brendon, yes we have them in central Kansas, and as a kid I remember that was the primary reason I didn't go bare-footed in the summer time. The goat heads are about gone here at our place. They are real easy to kill with 2,4-D. The old timers said they got spread with the rubber tires. The other one you are talking about we just referred to as sandburs, and in my opinion were the worst. Couldn't walk thru them without getting them stuck to your pants and shoes and socks if not wearing boots. They are harder to control as they are not a broad leaf and about the only thing to kill them is a round-up type of chemical. Luckily, we don't have many of either here at the farmyard.

showcrop · Jul 25, 2017

I don't believe that I have any that have come in by truck or equipment. I am having enough trouble keeping up with the creeping Charlie and bittersweet that came across the fence from the neighbors.

Eldon (WA) · Jul 25, 2017

(quoted from post at 03:34:30 07/25/17) What you know as puncture vine or bull head I've always called "goat head". Nasty stuff. This is a common weed in SE Colorado and growing up I had to get solid tubes (is that an oxymoron?) in my bicycle because the tires would have always been flat otherwise. We have some of it here in central Kansas and I find it along the edge of the no-till field that surrounds our property. I try to dig it out when I see it and , if it has seed already, take the whole plant to the burn pile. Driving through it with the mower is a good way to track it around.

In South Dakota we called them Texas thorns...we also had that 'velcro' weed, dad called it preacher's lice LOL! I see more and more of it out here in Washington in a couple of customer's fields I mow. The plants go under the front axle and flick them at me, usually filling up my shoe laces and anything else they can stick to.

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