Canada thistle

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    christa75
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    Help! My vegetable garden is being invaded by this awful weed Canada thistle. Can anyone offer any suggestions please? I read that I should prevent them from going to flower and then seed by pulling all greenery. This may also prevent nourishment to the horizontal root system. Any truth in this?

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    Hazelky
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    My allotment was full of thistle last year when I took it over. I did not remove any of the thistles. I cut them to the ground and covered in cardboard and compost.
    It is now a year later. Thistles do emerge here and there and I pull them whenever I spot them, mostly at a very small stage when they are not too prickly to pull by hand. They are appearing less and less, so I guess this approach works.

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