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When I moved to Eureka, I was introduced to cockleburs. I think their only redeeming feature is that the guy who invented Velcro got his idea from cockleburs. Oh yes, I guess the Japanese eat the plant some way or other. ---A neighbor told me that there was a cocklebur plant growing in front of her house. A Japanese college student was walking by and exclaimed “A bur plant!” (She said it in Japanese, however) She was all excited and took part of the plant back to her room to cook it.--- I’ve learned that cockleburs are VERY disease, insect, and Round-up resistant. The latter just beads up on the leaves, and it’s almost totally ineffective. You never see damage to a leaf that means some insect is dining or living on it. Digging out the roots is a hard job, even when the plant is young.
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I went online and think I’ve identified the wicked plant as “bursage,” a low-growing relative of ragweed. The sites I was on didn’t give me a really good chance to identify the plant, however, and I don’t know where my ‘plant key” is from my college botany course.
I was hard put to figure a way to get rid of that bunch of plants (a grouping about 3 ft. in diameter). Last night as I was trying to go to sleep I decided to encase myself in plastic bags, pull the stuff up and seal it in a plastic garbage bag. This morning Jim helped me tape a plastic grocery bag to my sleeved arm, and a black plastic garbage bag as a skirt. I went out and carefully pulled the offending weed up and stuffed it into another bag. I was doing pretty well until a skinnier branch flang back on me and nailed my shirt, an old one that I could do without if things went bad. I got all 50 burs out of my shirt and the 10 or so that were on my shoe laces. Now I have to make a note in my datebook for next spring to be sure to use Round-up on any plant in that area that doesn’t look familiar. I’m already on patrol for stinging nettles. Now I’ve added bursage to my battle list. (I should have had Jim take a picture of me in my bur battle dress.)
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Try using fabric softener to get those burs off. I've put t'shirts to soad in water with the fabric softener, then just kind of pulled them off. At least they didn't restick to something else. Don't know as it will work on everything, but it's worth a try. Also, in my battles with noxious weeds, I found most have a waxy substance on the leaves that keeps the herbicide from penetrating. I use some stuff called Hi-Yield Spreader Sticker mixed in with some Ferti-lome Weed Free Zone. The directions are on the bottles. Pricey stuff, but it works on broad leaves. It's just a nuisance to have to mix it all up in a sprayer and go do the deed.Gotta be careful about the overspray too.
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