I have them growing along my creek, and I hate them. I had plans of digging them up and burning them, then it hit me....they're growing along the creek. When it rains and the creek flows, I suspect the water will just bring more in and provide me a constant battle. I'm not going to bother with them if they are going to keep repopulating with every rain. Should I attempt to control them?

My grandpa hated cockleburs, not just hated he HATED them. His rule was if he saw one it died, didn't matter that they would come from other pastures. Unless you have miles of creek beds, it should be that hard to get control over them. A good cotton hoe and walk will clean them out. If you don't you will not only have the washed in seeds you will have provided a plenty of your own contributing to the mess.

What Dogcatcher said, a good hoe and 30 minutes when you have time and they will be gone.

I'll give it a go, then. I know my boys can't wait to get in on the fun.

Chop them down before they go to seed. If not, collect the cocklebur and sell as porcupine eggs. I have trouble with thistle from upstream and try to stay ahead by cutting the flowers and collecting in a feed sack and burning it.

2-4-D and a hand spayer works well.

Pulled them by hand when I was younger but graduated to 2-4-D in recent years. Makes me sick to go to some of our area lakes and see the banks lined with them.

When the wind is blowing those thistles seeds can go for miles, at least the cockleburs don't.

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Thanks guys.

Porcupine eggs. I have to use that one.

Trap a couple of wild naugas and sell the porcupine eggs in their own custom made naugahyde pouch.

I'll look for them between snipe hunts.

The oil field has a lot of city boys, they just might be in the market for porcupine eggs. Tell them they are best scrambled with chorizo.

I know a few that just might go for it.

You might try to spray them with a little lacquer and make them fancy ....

A crazy thing Cockleburs have 3 seeds in each bur that germinate over 3 years so even if you think you have them wiped out this year look for 2 more years of growth before those seeds are gone. It takes at least 3 years of control to rid a place of them even without other seeds being brought in by animals or water.

Wonderful news. Now I can't sleep.

kmon I think you just gave Sneaky nightmares!!

Not if he cannot sleep

ya just spray some chemicals in your creek bed thats better than having cockleburs.