Baymule’s Pasture Management (or MISmanagement)

[RR Homestead]

Some of those rosette bases get 5 feet across. After all the work I’ve done on these things, I can’t just sit here and watch them go to seed. Lop and bag!

We have those here. They get huge. Our neighbor next to us rarely took care of them. Even when he ran cattle on the land. Now it's silage farmed and the people renting it don't take care of them either. We spent a lot of time every year digging them up to get on top of them. We had them pretty much gone by digging them up every season and now we are overrun with them again. Between the sump line and our fence is solid 6 foot wide of them. They don't bother to take care of them. Now we are seeing them in their alfalfa when it grows. The winds shifted a few years ago and I think that a ton of their seeds blew across our property. It's been a yearly battle again ever since on that side. I will be so happy to not have lazy neighbors. We're told our new neighbors take good care of their properties. They all hay it around us so I'd think they would keep that stuff in check. Time will tell.
Did you know the stalks are edible? You can cut them when they are smaller, take the branches off, skin the stalks and pickle them or season them. Apparently it's a common thing in Cajun cooking.

 

[Baymule]

Yes the stalks are edible, one of those starving, hungry things. Good to know if you need it. Son tried them once, just to see. He said they taste like celery.

 

[RR Homestead]

Yes the stalks are edible, one of those starving, hungry things. Good to know if you need it. Son tried them once, just to see. He said they taste like celery.

That's actually what I would expect it to taste like. I always say some day i'll try it for fun but only when I know they aren't being poisoned. I've not been motivated enough yet to do it on the ones we have on our own property. More killing the suckers being a priority than a supper trial.

 

[Baymule]

I'm thinking about going out this morning and lopping some more thistles. The blooms are doing what blooms do and I don't want seed floating on the breeze.

 

[Baymule]

Whew! I lopped heads and bagged up 4 leaf bags of thistles. I think I got if not all, darn near most in the middle field. Leaving tomorrow for Corpus Christi, be back Wednesday. Next is spraying Grazon on the thistles.