Thorny bush you must die.

[m1garand762]

I worked my rear off to remove every buckthorn and multi flora rose from my property and 10 feet into the neighbors

 

[kenmbz]

Wish I could but neighbor has 30 acres and the stuff comes over, including all the poison ivy. I cut back about 20' into his woods, but birds love the berries.

 

[BruceS_55]

I'm dealing with 40 acres of Mesquite that has taken over some really good pasture that I want to use for making round bales in the future. I'm spraying one gallon of Remedy mixed with 3 gallons of diesel onto the trunks of every tree, one at a time. It's going to take me forever to get them all!!!

At my place, I don't have any Mesquite, but I do have locust trees and blackberries. The locust are easy enough to dig out with my backhoe, but he blackberries just spread out wider when you mow them down.

Until I got goats, I really didn't have a good plan for the blackberries. Around my small pond, they where so thick that you couldn't see the water, and I couldn't get any closer to them to mow them down without going into the water. Half a dozen goats ate every bit of them down to not existing anymore in just a couple of weeks. I wasn't paying attention, and I didn't know they ate blackberries, so it was a surprise when I walked around the back of the barn and I could see the pond without any blackberries. Out in the pasture where I had patches of blackberries growing, I can't find any sign of them ever being there. Goats love them!!!!

Goats are a huge pain to keep fenced in, but if you have a good fence, they never stop eating brush and everything they can get from the bottoms of the trees. Another big surprise was how nice they cleared everything around the lower parts of the woods. They went from too thick to see through, to looking like a manicured park.

I did some reading on using diesel for weeds. It sounds like it's pretty good as a weed killer on its own. Why add the Remedy?

 

[Larry Caldwell]

Tumble weed and thistle here mostly. It's seed is a thorny bloom that falls off as it tumbles along. The worse is some type of cocklebur that grows in the creek bottoms. You get on those berries in the cat or dog and it is scissor time.

Yeah, Russian thistle (tumbleweed) is hugely invasive. It has become so common in parts of the West that people don't realize it's not native.

We have a similar problem with Himalaya blackberry in Western Oregon. It was introduced by Luther Burbank, a great horticulturalist with no sense of consequences. My ancestors could walk anywhere without getting ripped to shreds by blackberry vines.