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Gardening

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Botany

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9. Round up doesn't really work on thistle. It just burns the plant and maybe the top few inches of ..
Tue Oct 19, 2021, 11:34 AM
Oct 2021

... the root which will then send up new sprouts. The roots on thistles can be massive. 2-4D is better.
You will never get all the thistle but you can control it and then replace it with a native.


As per chemicals you can't let the perfect be the enemy of the good and right now during this
age of extinction where we are losing so much biodiversity and the supportive capacity of
our ecosystems to non native invasive plants they are an important tool. Sometime we need
to kill plants to help our planet.

I do some ecological restoration work and if you have something to use instead of round up I'm
all ears.

any ?s P.M. me

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