Did you know that one knapweed plant can produce up to 25,000 seeds per year? I read that little tidbit in a pamphlet I picked up at the Deschutes County Fair this year. Along with knapweed, we have some other nasty noxious invaders that are a scourge to us as well as to our animals. Internet searching, reading everything we can get our hands on, talking to various agencies and scratching our heads for answers on how to get rid of the weeds is a constant war for my husband and I and we plan on winning. Not only do weeds threaten our plants economically, they threaten our land ecologically. Also, weeding is time consuming and we needed a victory yesterday.
Earlier this spring my husband and I saw a YouTube video of a weeder, found on a FaceBook Page devoted to lavender farmers. He called the lavender farmer in Washington State who had one of these machines and then called the company who made the machine. The company, located in Quebec, Canada, answered speaking French...oops! Thank heaven the fellow on the other end could speak and understand American English. He told my husband of a distributor in the USA--Oregon, to be exact, and the third call my husband made was to the Oregon company. They had one left; we said "sold" and the next day were on our way to Woodburn, saw it, asked questions (one important question for us was whether it could be used with drip irrigation), and, in about a week, it was home.
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| daughter driving/husband's "dry run" on weeder |
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| it's working? it's working--whew! It is working! |
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| Easy to attach/easy to use |
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| Good visibility for seeing drip irrigation |
.....SO FAR, SO GOOD.... One more weapon in our arsenal to defeat this enemy!
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