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Central Kansas | John: you don't have the market cornered on musk or 'nodding' thistle for sure. Lots of native grass in this part of the world and it takes several days, EVERY YEAR, to 4-wheel your way across the pastures chopping or spraying musk thistle....and cedars. An aerial treatment with Grazon will knock them back for a couple of years...but they always come again. This is a weed that will require annual endeavor to keep in check....and never to eradicate. Neighbors with them untreated are the biggest problem here. Noxious weed department and County folks are reluctant to enact the law (spray and present bill, reduce CRP payment, etc.)
Two years ago we visited friends at Moran Jct., Wy....just outside the gate to Teton National Park. Took a drive up through the park and YIKES!!!!!....musk thistle everywhere. I would expect that chemical control in a national park would be verboten as it would kill all the woody brush, etc. Way too late for control by chopping or hand spraying. They have a real problem there. Back home, having a glass on the deck, I noted 2 or 3 'nodding' thistles in my friend's rustic landscape. He was on them but they will be back.
Went to the gulf in Louisiana in April...driving the Texas and Louisiana roads....the ditches were full of thistle along with wildflowers. They didn't look like musk thistle...but there were plenty of them. Well......I guess they are kinda a 'wildflower'. | |
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You guys have musk thistle?
