08-17-2007, 05:12 AM
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Art, do you have Yellow Star Thistle where you are? In the Santa Cruz Mtns.,
Les, I am in the Santa Cruz Mtns! (All my life, actually!)
Fortunately, I don't have a star thistle problem, but I do have the rattlesnake grass. Of the invasives, I'll take rattlesnake grass over star thistles, broom, and acacias. Star thistle makes great honey and that's about the only good thing I can say about it.
I'm seeing more and more acacias where ever I look on Hwy 17. I don't think it's getting the attention it deserves, like the broom and ivy.
The stuff I'm dealing with grows six feet per year, stump cultures like crazy, manufactures seeds by the millions, broadcasts them hundreds of feet somehow, and creates dense monoculture thickets.
Too bad about the silverswords not doing well in Volcano, but I'm not surprised. Can't really picture silverswords along side hapu`u!
Art M