Monday, July 02, 2007

Summer fun!?*&#!

St. Augustine likened heresy in the Church to the mythical Hydra; lop of one head and two grow back. I have another candidate: Tribulus terrestris L. , an amazing little terror that one certainly can respect while seeking to eradicate it!



20 gallons of Round-up down over this last weekend, towards the goal of:



The ugly bug that looks like the answer, however.




But the faux-paws is cute, though.

3 comments:

  1. I've heard the secret to eradicating goat heads is to water. The plant is apparently hydrophobic, so to speak.

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  2. The web site linked mentioned that unfortunate misconception, which may have started with noticing that goatheads don't grow in riparian habitat; ie: underwater. Watering will give you a great growth of vigorously virile goatheads! What they don't like is competition with something like lawn, which chokes them out. They thrive on the wet ditchbanks.

    I saw goatheads in Jerusalem. It could explain the short tempers of folks living there!

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  3. Bonjour, est-ce que les goatheads in Jerusalem le raison de le guerre?

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