If the soil is friable I use a digging fork, if not I usually just keep cutting them back like you described.
@carolsawgle3462Ай бұрын
Thanks so much for the information.. I kept digging them out on my lawn and in a couple of weeks later I found them in different places.. my neighbors don’t cut their lawn 🤬 so I thought somehow there were seeds coming from them and blowing into my lawn. What you said makes sense, I’m going to get some of the vinegar at Home Depot if they have it and do what you suggested. Thanks again
@twinturbo34613 жыл бұрын
You have to get them out from the root, they can spread in different areas, using a spading fork would work best.
@mohanmano31652 жыл бұрын
Thanks which vinegar should be used for this and how to apply it? May be more explanation would be helpful
@vikka63102 жыл бұрын
Horticultural vinegar. Anything for the kitchen has too low acidity. Look in the "organic" section of your garden center chemicals area.
@Robebabu2 жыл бұрын
If you just keep cutting back, will the root eventually die, or is this just the best(easiest) alternative to pulling? Whatever gets rid of the most roots fastest.
@WisVeggieGardeners2 жыл бұрын
Yes they will but it may take a long time it is the most organic way to go about it. the more and faster way it to use 2-4d broadleaf herbicides
@65744915 күн бұрын
I can dig them up but it is just too hot
@CP-iw6ou2 ай бұрын
Can this technique be used for milkweed in my flowerbeds? They are growing amonst my perenials. Grrrrrrr
@WisVeggieGardeners2 ай бұрын
Yes just keep cutting back until it gives up
@bogneyman3658 Жыл бұрын
Raise your garden higher,so you can see the weeds, trying to get them.😉1
@ayupmeduck57082 жыл бұрын
A great way to get rid is by eating them and saving some cash from the vegetable aisle.
@ayupmeduck57082 жыл бұрын
@@yuma9663 all of them and according to my research, none are toxic. I've eaten Cirsium arvense (creeping thistle in the UK) and Cirsium vulgare (spear thistle in the UK). Please research first.
@michaelclaxton-garrison2012 ай бұрын
Eat the Thistles. Every type is edible. God's gift.
@PoisonShot20Ай бұрын
My question is this: Where does this nasty prikleling creeping come from? I bought my😮 house in 2005, and didn't have this plant in my yard, about 4 years or so it started popping out. Bird seeds? Chicken food from store? For sure it is. not from rain!🤣. I hate this thing!
@guciochris52973 ай бұрын
So, pulling the plant with some parts of the root will stimulate regrowth but cutting down the plant and leaving the roots undisturbed will depleate the energy from the roots? It makes utterly no sense at all. Logical fallacy!
@austinsheets54752 ай бұрын
Just say you don't know. 😑🙄
@julianneravely51122 ай бұрын
He said to spray with 30% vinegar. That will burn the roots. I have watched 4 similar videos on organic ways to deal with thistles. They all support what he says.
@guciochris52972 ай бұрын
@@julianneravely5112 the problem is that none of those "experts" ever does follow up video with the actual results days, weeks or months later. Just regurgitate the same nonsense over and over. Thistles roots are meters long going in all directions that's why its such an annoying "weed" to deal with.
@Lucky_Chase15 күн бұрын
You have no idea what you're talking about. No leaves mean no photosynthesis. 'Deplete' is the correct spelling, by the way. With consistency this tires the roots and they die.
@guciochris529714 күн бұрын
@@Lucky_Chase Utter nonsense, your life isn't long enough to exhaust the roots of Thistles plants. Good luck tho Mr Spelling