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Originally Posted by Botnst
Good luck with the mesquite. The seeds (like rattlebox) persist in the soil, sometimes for decades. Disturbing the soil (like tilling) will stimulate germination even years after you think all of the plants and seeds are gone. You'll be like "Jason and the Argonauts" tilling the ground with dragon's teeth and harvesting myrmidons. Cedar, too. Bet you've found that out the hard way, unless you use a pre-emerge.
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We're in pretty good shape as far as mesquite, huisache and cedar go...not exactly sure what cedar we have but it isn't the mountain juniper that's so invasive in the hill country. Ours are big tall ones...we leave them be.
The mesquite is a once a season job...there's always several saplings poking up this time of year and a few that we missed the season before. We carry a roll of engineer's tape in each of the farm vehicles and try and mark them when we're cruising the property. That way, in a few weeks when everything is growing full bore, I'll load up the backpack sprayer with Remedy mix up a giant Jack & Coke and get Dad to drive me around the place in his buggy looking for the pink and orange tape. It's great way to spend the afternoon.
The thing I hate is the damned yaupon. The stuff clumps up around the bases of all my trees where you can't get to with the shredder. The only thing we've come up with for control is to go after them using the gas brushcutter. The Domain alone has over 200 trees...it's a job.