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11. The best course is to get the goats to munch the thistle and when they are gone the thistle ....

Tue Oct 19, 2021, 01:00 PM

Oct 2021

.... will come back up and then you can spray it. Spray only when it is actively growing
and mix some some liquid plant (miracle-gro ??) in with your spray. The thistle will take
the chemical up faster. You will have to spray 2 to 3 times and then you can seed the
area or plant some plugs. It took the Cincinnati's parks dept. about 10 years to get real
control over the thistle and the natives growing at such a rate they were choke out the
thistle.

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yeah, i think i will have to. unless i can get some goats in here. mopinko Oct 2021 #8

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yeah, i agree. mopinko Oct 2021 #10

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