My folks moved out to the country between Joshua & Cleburne in the fall of 1969. My dad tried everything to get rid of the bull nettles, but the only thing that seemed to work was to cut them down & put an empty metal can over the stump & stomp it down. That worked really well, for about 30 years. Just recently he's noticed them coming back & out of curiousity dug down on a few. Every one had the rusted remains of a can around the base. He's on very sandy soil, lots of goat pellets for fertilizer, not compacted, but only about 10"-12" of soil above a limestone bedrock. He's organic by benign neglect, but does have a lot of native plants in the pastures. Any thoughts, y'all? One of the wildflowers of Texas reference books, by a very thorough lady whose name is impossible to pronounce, states that the seeds of the bull nettle were sought out by the Indians as a tasty food. Anyone have any info on
that scary thought??
