The most famous thistle patch in MN

[SD51555]

The show rolls on. I got look at it a month after getting flattened. Plenty of thistle there yet.

But look closer, it’s starting to share its space.

I finally got the gypsum on there. I forgot my partial bag of winter trit in the woods this week. Hopefully it’s still there and not too wet. I wanna dump the rest .of the trit on this patch. I should have done with before I seeded, but I forgot. It was also too tall to get the flinger in there to spread.

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[matinc]

SD is the thistle giving space from the lime or as I understand from the thistle loosening the compacted soil and fading away naturally?

 

[jsasker007]

I wonder if winter rye would help to suppress the thistle? It's supposed to have some of the same chemicals that you find in 2-4b? I know it helps with lots of other weeds by stopping lots of different small seeds germinate. Just curious on that.

 

[Skeeter]

I wonder if winter rye would help to suppress the thistle? It's supposed to have some of the same chemicals that you find in 2-4b? I know it helps with lots of other weeds by stopping lots of different small seeds germinate. Just curious on that.

I've not seen rye slowing down thistles in my plots.

 

[matinc]

SD waiting on your thoughts ol thistle whisperer

 

[SD51555]

SD is the thistle giving space from the lime or as I understand from the thistle loosening the compacted soil and fading away naturally?

Two things:

One, thistle is autotoxic, meaning it won’t grow where it grew for a period of time after it’s been there.

Two, if the conditions that brought on the thistle are corrected, they shouldn’t return, and fade away for good. In this spot, once biology, minerals, and oxygen return, this should be a fantastic little spot.

Thistle is a first responder when something awful has happened.


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