How can I get rid of stickers and goat heads from my yard?
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First is your yard landscaped? Good healthy ground cover will choke them out. Yard weed guard cloth and gravel will help some also. If it is not-- get enough full newspapers to paper your yard. They have to be at least 4 layers thick. Lay them and water well, let your dogs, neighborhood kids what ever run over the papers.(or use a roller from a garden store). This attaches all the loose seeds to the paper and is easy to dispose and rake/pull up the plants. then in the spring be diligent pull all baby plants. Good luck they take a while to get rid of. FYI put a soft rug outside your doors, better it catch those monsters than your bare feet.![](http://cdn.hometalk.com/resources/design/emojis/1f60a.png)
As for stickers; if the are what is called Texas sandburrs, you need to pull them up as much as you can, making sure all the little leaves and stickers are also picked up because they will both reroot. Then crowd them out with grass!!
I also have a yard full of goatheads,I was told to get a piece of old carpet and drag it around yard with my pickup.then burn or take to dump.
Fertilize your lawn. It will kill the weeds/stickers.
Mow the yard or scythe it. Collect all the stuff and burn or bin it!
Do a section at a time. Use All Vegetation Killer. Enclose an area with tarps and posts to keep your dogs away. It doesn't take long to kill off most anything. READ THE DIRECTIONS and follow on the bottle. Places like Home Depot carries it. Once they plants are dead, pull up the dead debris, rake thoroughly wait for a few rains or water thoroughly for a week and then put down new grass seed. By that time the Vegetation Killer should have soaked into the ground BELOW where the new grass seeds are. Cover with a lite cover of all purpose soil to enrich the new seeds.
Burn it off with a blow torch! and keep the dogs away for a while afterwards, check the yard and then use the blow torch again & repeat as long as is necessary to completely get rid of them.