This could include noxious weeds like thistles or willow-herb, which can sow themselves on adjoining land.
Grapes cannot be won from thorns, or figs from thistles.
We have seen to our sorrow miles of it, full of thistles, reeds and rubbish, and producing little.
I have known fields that in the last 10 years have gradually disappeared, encroached upon by bracken, thistles, or ragwort.
Generally, the different strategies showed only minor differences, thus delivering options for optimal strategies of thistle control under given specific conditions of sites and cropping systems.
Go, neddy, and you shall have an additional feed of thistles.
In our experiment, the regenerative capacity of thistles was considerably lower than that of clover when ryegrass- clover ley was mowed and/or mulched.
Only a few thistles in several patches grew undisturbed.
