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about ripped my head off when I took the 2nd look

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jodywy

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Was up to the Cemetery this evening, the people that got the bid from the Cemetery District have done a great job this summer. They had cleared back the summer flowers from the monuments, trimmed up to the trees and bushes. But down in one corner no way, I walked down and between 2 quaking aspen, next to a Headstone was a little rock garden with only LEAFFY SPURGE growing. It was yellowed somewhat, it had been sprayed. Talked with the maintains people they been trying to keep it back and been spraying it, told them yup you will be spraying it for years and you will probably kill the trees getting it done.
 
We fought leafy spurge and russian knapweed constantly in SW Montana.
Russian knapweed is easier to control than leafy spurge. It does put out a poison that kills the plants around it...sooooooo I always wondered
why russian knapweed wasn't used to knock out the spurge and then
the knapweed could be sprayed and controlled. :P :wink: :D

No one tried it, but it might have worked... :wave:
 
In canada we can use Tordon 22k and it will kill the spurge but also sterilizes the ground at that rate. Not sure if it is an option or if ya can get it. It is expensive also
 
Your right you never completley wipe it out,but not that hard to control if sprayed at the right time with the right product.Neighbour had it bad on some new land he bought and he got it under control in a couple of years and i'm not talking patches more like whole fields of the weed,he uses 24d and banvel.
 
muddyviewrancher said:
In canada we can use Tordon 22k and it will kill the spurge but also sterilizes the ground at that rate. Not sure if it is an option or if ya can get it. It is expensive also
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You aren't supposed to use Tordon near surface water, if memory serves me correctly, and that is where we fight with spurge the most.
 
I don't know what to do on crop land because we don't do that anymore but if you are talking about grazing, we used to spray weeds and still had them or they were replaced with other tougher weeds until we listened to the folks that were telling us that weeds are a symptom rather than the problem. There are lots of ways to get rid of weeds but if the problem that allowed them to show up in the first place isn't dealt with you will never win. Sheep, Goats, if you can handle them will willingly eat them but Kathy Voth has taught a lot of cows to eat weeds too and they go on to teach their calves. We are still learning and it is a steep learning curve but since we started using managed grazing and limited our continuous grazing we are seeing more grass and less weeds in the managed pastures. Also it helps if you call them forbs instead of weeds.
 
C Thompson said:
I don't know what to do on crop land because we don't do that anymore but if you are talking about grazing, we used to spray weeds and still had them or they were replaced with other tougher weeds until we listened to the folks that were telling us that weeds are a symptom rather than the problem. There are lots of ways to get rid of weeds but if the problem that allowed them to show up in the first place isn't dealt with you will never win. Sheep, Goats, if you can handle them will willingly eat them but Kathy Voth has taught a lot of cows to eat weeds too and they go on to teach their calves. We are still learning and it is a steep learning curve but since we started using managed grazing and limited our continuous grazing we are seeing more grass and less weeds in the managed pastures. Also it helps if you call them forbs instead of weeds.
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this was planted in the cemetary
 

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