Giant ragweed, yes, that's it I think, Worth. They get really tough stems and will snap off at the base if you try to yank them out. If there's been some rain, you can get some of the root out. But they just re-sprout anywhere there is a little piece of root left. They get tall, up to my shoulders, some of them.
I do try to knock the nearby ones down when they start to bloom, but after a while it is an impossible task. Not to sound defeatist, but we just live in a sea of the stuff. I just concentrate where I have plantings and hope to wear them out by persistence.
Blood weed! I've never heard it called that. Wonder where that name came from.
I'll have to snap a pic of a thorny shrub we have here. My husband calls it velcro weed. Maybe you can tell me what it is. I like to know the names of everything but I have never been able to figure that one out.
Thanks,
erin
