If you farm or garden, or even if you just spend a lot of time taking care of your lawn, you’ve probably shared a few choice words for the weeds. They come out of nowhere, and everywhere. You can spend days, weeks or months trying to grow vegetables, crops or grass and sometimes have very little success. But the weeds, well, they always seem to find a way to grow.
I was able to spend a few days last week in North Dakota on the land I grew up on. For the past six years, we’ve rented a portion of our pasture land to a neighbor. But over time, I noticed the leafy spurge (an especially hardy and particularly invasive and annoying weed) has moved in with a vengeance. Leafy spurge is such an issue in North Dakota that experts have struggled mightily to find a way to remove it. It’s stubborn. It grows anywhere, even in soils where the grass barely grows, in fact, especially in those places. Honestly we thought we had it pretty well under control up until the last few years, when it just exploded.
I know from experience on our land, that if you don’t keep up on the maintenance, the leafy spurge will virtually take over and you’ll have fields of yellow and green nastiness, which doesn’t make good cattle feed. |
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