The heads seem more red than usual this year. Ruby red instead of pink.
I have 35 gallons of them with around 10 plants left to dig.
I have 35 gallons of them with around 10 plants left to dig.
Next time you’re around them, please give them all wedgies and tell’em thanks a lot for the thistles. The gift that keeps on giving.My older son’s wife’s family introduced thistle by accident to the US ! Seems her ancestors that migrated from Eastern Europe near the Russian border in the 1800’s brought with them wheat seeds to plant that had Russian thistle seeds in it too. After planting ther seeds a couple of years on the plain of eastern Montana they began seeing tumbleweed/thistle sprout up with their. Well the rest is history as our country has it all over the west now.
As Russian migrants they are hard working Americans today and very patriotic. This claim to fame however has never left theyfamily history
That must not be the same plant.Aren't they biennials? Just green the first year, produce flowers the second year then die. No need to dig them up.
Yeah that's a different kind of thistle.
That looks like a nodding thistle (also called a musk thistle, IIRC). I hate those SOBs with the fire of a thousand suns--I spent years trying to eliminate them from my hay field. The state of Oklahoma hates them, too; they're legally a noxious weed, and could get you a $1,000 fine (if that law ever got enforced, which, I understand, it never is).
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