Farm and Garden

[Uncle Gump]

I wouldn't say I'm ahead of schedule... but the garden is officially in.

Gonna try the potato in a bag thing again. Last time I tried my tomato plants choked them out... and the bags take a lot of watering.

 

[Lefty]

I wouldn't say I'm ahead of schedule... but the garden is officially in.

Gonna try the potato in a bag thing again. Last time I tried my tomato plants choked them out... and the bags take a lot of watering.

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i wish i had your energy

 

[97RangerXLT]

Thistle... I have a metric buttload of thistle plants growing in my garden, some over 2 ft tall. How do I get rid of them without killing the flowers?

AJ

 

[RobbieD]

How do I get rid of them without killing the flowers?

Well, that rules out napalm. Bummer.

My garden is doing OK so far.

 

[Lefty]

Thistle... I have a metric buttload of thistle plants growing in my garden, some over 2 ft tall. How do I get rid of them without killing the flowers?

AJ

Get a 5 gallon bucket. Turn it upside down over the thistle. Put a brick on it so it won't blow away. Repeat again and again until all the thistles are covered.

 

[Jazzer]

Brush the bottom of a few of the leaves the leafs with a paint brush and herbicide. That’ll show them.

 

[alwaysFlOoReD]

Pick, boil, and eat...

But maybe check if they are edible first...

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[Lefty]

Pick, boil, and eat...

But maybe check if they are edible first...

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Nettles are edible

 

[RobbieD]

Nettles are edible

I dunno. They didn't do much for me; and it poked holes in the paper and was hard to keep lit.

 

[85_Ranger4x4]

Nettles are edible

Our geese and sheep love them. I have heard of people using them to make tea as well.

 

[scotts90ranger]

Thistle... I have a metric buttload of thistle plants growing in my garden, some over 2 ft tall. How do I get rid of them without killing the flowers?

AJ

shy of pulling them not sure of the options... my brother has been fighting bindweed and thistles and last year we made an undercutter (think hoola hoe on serious steroids) that's like 6' wide on a 3 point frame that's a grader blade on edge just to cut the roots off, a normal cultivator doesn't touch thistles or bindweed apparently but this thing works great, it's a cobbled mess as we threw it together in a couple hours but you'll get that...

 

[97RangerXLT]

Get a 5 gallon bucket. Turn it upside down over the thistle. Put a brick on it so it won't blow away. Repeat again and again until all the thistles are covered.

At 4 bucks a bucket, minus the 4 or 5 I have laying around... that will be well over 1000 bucks worth of buckets...

AJ

 

[Curious Hound]

Unfortunately, manual extraction is the best option

 

[85_Ranger4x4]

Unfortunately, manual extraction is the best option

Spade.

Cut the plant off, cut the heads off the plant

Rinse, repeat etc...

 

[Uncle Gump]

The thistle at our old house (was built on developed farm land) seemed as those had evolved to be fairly unaffected to the commercial weed killers.

The best I could do was to fight them with a spade shovel. I battled them every year.