Green Shoots

I put out a tobacco patch one year, and there was a lot of green shoots between the rows. They were sticker careless, it took about four years to rid the patch of them. The culprit was manure, it was free, and good for the plants. I found out the hard way manure contains a tremendous amount of weed seed, and the outside shell is dissolved in the stomach of the animal. This combined with the nutrients of the manure can be defastating to your crop. After hoeing, plowing, and applying a herbicide, I finally took control in two years, but the problem took four years to completely eradicate. The moral of this story is, even though the manure is free, it is filled with weed seed. You hoe what you sew.

HEAD NUT