Years and years ago we were in charge of keeping the canal bank free of over-growth. So we did… we planted grass, watered it up, waited for it to get a goodly size and put the cows out to graze on it. Magic occurred….the sides were free of grass, weeds didn’t take over and every spring we went out and burned off the trash. We were happy, the cows were happy and the ditch riders were happy.
Then the ditch company discovered the joys of weed spray. They were so excited and happy…. they could spray out the grass along their many miles, and miles of canal and ditch banks.
(Yellow Thistle)
So spray they did!
They were right! No more grass! Not a sprig anywhere…but in its place came
And other noxious weeds. Beats me.
Linda
Life on a Colorado Farm 
just shows to go ya… somebody knew what they were saying when they called out to that county guy… “Don’t fix it if it ain’t broke!!”
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Sounds incredibly …weird…
I so remember cockleburs…bull horns… sandburs….stickers
hated them growing up in the sticks…still do (o:
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Those and goats heads. Those are awful too.
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That is why I’m glad to see at least some of the folks here still burning off their ditches. Unfortunately all those people that “move to the country” (which by the way used to be pasture) and over graze it and never take care of it now have led to tons of tumbleweeds and blowing dirt. Sigh…..
Love the car show pics!
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Idiots all.
Sorry to hear that. Don’t know what to say.
Pretty cars at least. 🙂
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Miserable things are cockleburs……the dogs hate ’em.
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Those are some mean looking stickers. One of our fields has sandburs….that is on the top of Daryl’s list for summer jobs to get done.
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Those are the worst weeds..and hard to get rid of too..round up a couple times a year..but the grass sounded like a much better solution to me..and burning..it burns off the weed seed. Progress is not a good thing sometimes:(
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Sounds like typical bureaucracy.
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Stupid. And sad. And they are probably still convinced their way is better. Sigh.
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Oh how I hate those things. Sounds like a typical stupid move and they probably still think it was a good plan.
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We had thistles in our last garden – it took us several years to get rid of them, digging them up, using the strongest weedkillers we could get our hands on. We also had stinging nettles in the same patch of garden, so you had to be very careful not to get scratched or stung when weeding!!
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Cockleburs and thistles were the bane of my existence growing up. Dad said we had to get rid of them, which is almost impossible. It’s too bad the ditch company couldn’t leave well enough alone.
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