From what I have read, tarweed and fiddleneck are the same
weed. This is the third year I have battled it. Last year we sprayed it
with Weedmaster, but sprayed in May. (We live in northern Idaho) This had
no effect on the darn weed. For the rest of the summer, I mowed the
pasture with my riding lawnmowerL . Supposedly
this should have helped my problem. It didn’t - It just made the
weeds shorter when they flowered and harder to cut since they were so short–
and I cut short! After doing some research, this year I sprayed the
pasture the second week of April when the weed was about an inch high.
This helped the most. I still did not get it all, but it is better than
last year. I know it was the Weedmaster that killed it since I saw it
yellow and die after spraying. I have a feeling that that part of my
problem in not getting it all was because it was a little windy the day I
sprayed. I even considered spraying a second time a couple weeks later to
kill the weeds that were late in sprouting, but did not have a sprayer and did
not know if it would hurt the pasture. The other annoying thing was that
it didn’t kill those stupid little white daisy weeds, whatever they are
called, . because I sprayed it so early. I know I will spray again early next
April, but does anyone know if it would hurt to spray again a few weeks later?
I’m going to get those stupid weeds if it kills me.
