These things (weeds) are impossible to control at my house. Whooo! I fought it for like the first four years...now I just rev up the mower and plow right over them.
I tried some weed killer, but it left horrible brown spots in my lawn (or what's trying to become my lawn). Thorns are the worst...I wait for them suckers to dry up, then I rake them together and dump them on the edge of my property to let the wind carry them off.
I try to get those little parachute weeds first, you know? The kind that kids make wishes on and then blow the little parachutes off? If you run over those with a mower it sends those little parachutes sailing all over your lawn. Then when you water the grass you also water them. I hate them. I spit on them! *ptoo!*
Thistles, I get early on. I go out and pull these up by hand. My first encounter with these bad babies was my last encounter.
Cheatgrass is everywhere on the res. But if I mow it while it's green, it looks like grass anyway and my neighbors don't have yards (green or not) so it still looks good from a distance.
