Every time I think . . maybe we could stay in Texas . . a grass burr gets me! Remember last year when I had to go to the doctor and it took him forever to dig a grass burr out of my foot?
About a month ago, I was in the garden and reached down to pull a weed. I grasped it right at the dirt level and sure enough .. there was a grass burr waiting for me. I wasn’t sure a piece of it was left in my finger and then I went to Louisiana and it started bothering me. Both Chad and Nicole tried to get it out. Chad was brutal. He was sure the only way to solve the problem was to dig it out with his pocket knife. NO! He did say “You need Prid!” What? How the heck did he know about Prid? Thanks to a blog reader who not only told me about Prid, but she sent me a container of it last year, I also know about Prid but hadn’t brought any with me on the trip and we were miles from a store that might have it so I just left the burr alone.
I’ve been home 2 weeks and I cannot keep a bandaid on the end of my index finger during the day . . working in the garden and knitting are impossible with a bandaid on the tip of my finger. Once I come in and take a shower, I use the Prid and keep a bandaid on my finger and I think finally, the burr may be out of my finger.
Grass Burr in Finger
Finally, a month later . . I am free of the grass burr.
Those things go right through most gloves. Any gloves I’ve found that they won’t go through are way too bulky for me to use in the garden for most garden chores.
There are herbicides we could use to help control them but I’m not willing to use those in the garden. This year’s crop is already up and I’ve been trying to pick them as I see them. Everything I read about them says that having a good thick healthy cover of grass will keep them at a minimum but keeping grass here, where it never rains and all the water we can spare goes toward the garden doesn’t result in having good, thick grass. Then, in the garden, they pop up everywhere with the freshly tilled dirt, fertilizer and water out there.
I’m thinking we may need to try to order Prid in gallon size containers! 🙂
montanaclarks says
In Montana we have lots of awful weeds–hounds tongue, burdock–just to name a couple, but none of our Montana weeds compare to those dang goat heads!!! Our new place in AZ has had goat heads and the stickers are still around–Emmi comes to a complete stop when she gets one in her paw–I do too!!! We are trying our best to eradicate and weed we see that even resembles a goat head!!
Dorothy Matheson says
Yes I also have spent 10 years mowing frequently and using a pointed hoe to dig the plants up. Much less stickers here not. Not totally gone go much less.
I also do not water in the brutal Texas summers (water way to expensive).
Dotti says
Is PRID a drawing salve? Growing up we always had a tin of black salve that our parents would put on splinters.
Janet Bronston says
Thought I was free from sand burrs (I think that’s Okie for grass burr) when I moved into town. Then the neighbor started hiring a lawn crew on the cheap. The strip between his yard and my driveway is now infested. I’m blaming junk left under the crew’s mowing deck when they come in from other jobs. Have to remember to put on shoes before I take the trash out now.
JudyL says
We’ve talked about that. If we ever leave here, we’ll have to power wash the lawn mower, the garden tiller, the RTV . . everything! I do not want to spread these blasted things anywhere else. Good luck getting rid of them!
Diana G says
Cockle Burrs aka Goat Heads are the worst to get in body parts. BUT I think a broken off rose thorn is up there too ..