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10/17/11, 05:11 PM
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I could just scream then cry!!!
I have a sticker patch down by the creek.
I have been working on digging up the stickers.
I sprayed the remaining stickers that I didnt dig up with 2-4-D.
I plan on digging them up too.
MY HUSBAND JUST CAME HOME AND MOWED THEM!!!!
I just talked to him on the phone before he mowed and told him to NOT mow the sticker patch!!!
He said but I walked through there and there was no stickers.
I said " yes there was a ton of them"!!! Didnt you notice the dead ones I sprayed?
Why would he do this to me?!! I've been working so hard at digging them up!!!
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10/17/11, 05:21 PM
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 ...... Give him 30 lashes with a wet noodle; then tell him the responsibility of getting rid of them is NOW HIS! 
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10/17/11, 06:37 PM
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Sounds exactly like something my DH would do.
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10/17/11, 06:39 PM
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Argh! That's awful!
I have a friend whose mantra is "For better or worse, in stubborn and in stupid." Sounds like it could be yours, too!
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10/17/11, 07:28 PM
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More dharma, less drama.
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Is he an engineer?
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10/17/11, 07:29 PM
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All I can say is, I completely empathise with you.
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10/17/11, 07:41 PM
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My ex did something like that!
I planted and babied a lovely lily once which he promptly pulled out and broke up.
He was "helping" me weed the flower garden!
Notice that he is an EX, but not for that reason! 
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10/17/11, 07:59 PM
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How about asking someone to fix a weedwhacker, which he does, and then tests it on six packs of seedlings you have set outside to harden off- plants like artichokes, and all manner of oddities that you can't just go out and buy ?!!?!?
And some have said I have no self-restraint! HA!
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10/17/11, 08:06 PM
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TI had one holly tree survive the move from va, it was about 12-14" tall. Until last week when DH mowed it down to 2". I feel your pain.
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10/17/11, 08:11 PM
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Aww, that is rough... I've been trying to eradicate some obnoxious weeds all summer, can't imagine I'd take too kindly to that...
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10/17/11, 09:05 PM
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My husband brought uncomposted manure into the garden full of weed seeds, and has in the past brought buckets of soil from the draw or some such "fertile" soil to help improve the garden. Always full of weed seeds. Needless to say I can never catch up. I feel your pain, I really do.
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10/17/11, 09:18 PM
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My former landlord in Texas said the best way to get rid of stickers was to fertilize the hell outta the patch. He has had severe problems in Clyde, TX, with his land having it. He grazed goats then placed them elsewhere then fertilized it. Worked pretty good.
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10/17/11, 09:23 PM
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Sounds like you just wanted something to gripe about. The 2,4-diclorophenoxyacetic acid should kill the roots, anyways. 
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10/17/11, 09:25 PM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by TedH71
My former landlord in Texas said the best way to get rid of stickers was to fertilize the hell outta the patch. He has had severe problems in Clyde, TX, with his land having it. He grazed goats then placed them elsewhere then fertilized it. Worked pretty good.
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That's a good point. My nastiest weeds (sand briars, cockleburrs, jimson weed) grow in the poorest soil. The pasture I've rehabilitated only has a few poke weeds the birds keep planting, and horse thistle which grows everywhere.
Next time you clean the sheep barn, Fowler, you know where to dump that stuff! Plant something you like that's good and hardy, and it might crowd those nasties out.
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10/17/11, 10:04 PM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Fowler
I have a sticker patch down by the creek.
I have been working on digging up the stickers.
I sprayed the remaining stickers that I didnt dig up with 2-4-D.
I plan on digging them up too.
MY HUSBAND JUST CAME HOME AND MOWED THEM!!!!
I just talked to him on the phone before he mowed and told him to NOT mow the sticker patch!!!
He said but I walked through there and there was no stickers.
I said " yes there was a ton of them"!!! Didnt you notice the dead ones I sprayed?
Why would he do this to me?!! I've been working so hard at digging them up!!!
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What species of "stickers" are you controlling with 2-4-D?
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10/17/11, 11:43 PM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by TedH71
My former landlord in Texas said the best way to get rid of stickers was to fertilize the hell outta the patch. He has had severe problems in Clyde, TX, with his land having it. He grazed goats then placed them elsewhere then fertilized it. Worked prettqy good.
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Totally off topic, but I went to school in Clyde for a few years & several of hubby's relatives live there 
As to stickers...... I feel your pain! I was over the moon excited when I moved here & had NO STICKERS! My brother borrowed my mower, I told him not to bring his lawn clippings in the catch bag & to clean it up before he returned it......He cleaned up the mower, forgot to empty the bag & last minute decided to empty it on the back corner of my property.......Which since his yard has gobs of stickers, he ended up transplanting them here.......That was 2 years ago & anytime I find a sticker plant I make him come dig it up! 
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10/18/11, 07:11 AM
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Tell this Yankee what a sticker is........?
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10/18/11, 07:46 AM
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I mowed a bunch of catnip that I wasn't suppose to.
Cats are wierd enough as is they don't need that stuff to get goofier.
Yes, I got screamed at, but it was satisfying.
(she thru my alarm watch across the room)
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10/18/11, 10:15 AM
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Sock puppet reinstated
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I have done lots of things like that. I understand it is frustrating but is it that bad that you have to tell a bunch of people the latest thing he did wrong?
The only person that hears me complain about my husband is my very best friend and very rarely even then. I know she will never repeat it. I guess you won't be complaining when he tells everyone all the things you do wrong.
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10/18/11, 12:18 PM
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are your stickers like poison ivy? If you chop up a live plant, each and every little bit of stem that hits the ground will root and start a new plant. Had that in WI - acres of it!
Here in SD I'm battling Canadian thistle. That is another weed that grows both from bits of root and seeds. I also work hard to pull it up. DH prefers poison, and he prefers to use a machine to apply it. We now have big dead patches around most of the buildings as he had the sprayer set up wrong and did more of a broadcast spray instead of a directed stream.
We've always fought about that, and this year I gave in and said "go ahead". I hope he learned something after seeing the 3' wide dead patch along most of the buildings.
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