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<blockquote data-quote="HoLeChit" data-source="post: 4119950" data-attributes="member: 35036"><p>[USER=47828]@GnometownHero[/USER] pretty much summed it up. You don’t want to exclusively use burning to kill them. Sandspurs grow faster than anything else, so if you burn the yard, it just allows the sandspurs to have less competition when regrowing.</p><p>What I have done:</p><p>Chop grass real short</p><p>drag carpet over ground. A few times.</p><p>Spray heavily with herbicide, let everything die. Last I heard fire doesnt always kill the seeds.</p><p>drag carpet</p><p>put down lots of quality topsoil and fertilizer, sandspurs hate good soil and thrive in sandy soil.</p><p>plant the best grass you got and baby the crap out of it, like your life depends on it. It kinda does.</p><p></p><p>So you kill everything, remove the seed, enrich the ground, and then go all out on trying to establish enough grass to choke out everything else.</p><p></p><p>Also, if you mow sandspurs a lot, they just produce seed pods faster and when they're shorter. Its counterintuitive. Ask me how I know.</p><p></p><p>If you are a "waste not, want not" kinda guy, I have heard that the seed pods are high in oil content and have similar nutritional content as soybeans. I also heard that people have made high octane gas, as well as porridge from it? I can't find much on either, but you might be sitting on a goldmine if you have the information needed.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="HoLeChit, post: 4119950, member: 35036"] [USER=47828]@GnometownHero[/USER] pretty much summed it up. You don’t want to exclusively use burning to kill them. Sandspurs grow faster than anything else, so if you burn the yard, it just allows the sandspurs to have less competition when regrowing. What I have done: Chop grass real short drag carpet over ground. A few times. Spray heavily with herbicide, let everything die. Last I heard fire doesnt always kill the seeds. drag carpet put down lots of quality topsoil and fertilizer, sandspurs hate good soil and thrive in sandy soil. plant the best grass you got and baby the crap out of it, like your life depends on it. It kinda does. So you kill everything, remove the seed, enrich the ground, and then go all out on trying to establish enough grass to choke out everything else. Also, if you mow sandspurs a lot, they just produce seed pods faster and when they're shorter. Its counterintuitive. Ask me how I know. If you are a "waste not, want not" kinda guy, I have heard that the seed pods are high in oil content and have similar nutritional content as soybeans. I also heard that people have made high octane gas, as well as porridge from it? I can't find much on either, but you might be sitting on a goldmine if you have the information needed. [/QUOTE]
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