Ian Coldwater 📦💥: anyone else’s yard in the Twin Cities absolutely beset by those nasty thorny thistles that grow like a foot overnight? just me?

anyone else’s yard in the Twin Cities absolutely beset by those nasty thorny thistles that grow like a foot overnight? just me?

I legit don’t understand how anyone keeps up with yard work like…. Ever

I too get the thistles and being that I won the battle almost a decade ago, makes sense I need to do it again. They do seem to grow from "oh how cute" to "AHHHHHHH" overnight. Just like chin hairs.

its fun and gets easier the longer you do it and get it maintainable

Gardeners

They pay people, in my case, its my giant 6 yo whoa the size of a 9 yo

It's called rewinding Ian!

Ok but you measuring the height of things is always suspect 😀

they really do get taller than I am

Stop 😂 although I saw some ferns that were my height yesterday I do get thistle leafs in the grass though, this time of year I check weekly and I have a tool to dig down to the roots and yank them. But you can get ones with long poles for the tall stuff www.fiskars.com/en-us/garden...

Ergo Weeder (300S) | Fiskarswww.fiskars.com Remove weeds without straining!

Aw yeah, weeding tools are the way. You can also try a hori hori!

Yea I have one of those for digging

Can cornfirm. Have had to cut down an acre of the damned things back when I was barely taller than Ian.

we grew a 6+ ft tall milkweed once in college, then the city made us cut it

They are glorious 🤩

Thistles, no. Fucking creeping bellflower, yes. It's worse than creeping charlie! Also buckthorn, but I have a solution for that. *cackles gleefully in chainsaw*

Like, low to the ground, kinda fuzzy? Cause yup. 😭

Post