It’s a bone-dry year in Montana; the rivers are already low. We’re hoping for rain not only to ease the dry conditions, but also to ease the weed pulling. We even get a little excited about pulling weeds when the forecast calls for rain.
Few things are more frustrating than trying to pull thistles and dalmation toadflax out of bone dry ground. Every weed top that snaps off without the roots coming up is chalked up as a loss.
My retired wife has done the lion’s share of weed control. We thought we had a few different types of weed, but thanks to an app called Flora Incognita we have been able to take a picture of and identify more than a dozen on several acres of hill behind our house.
