Anyone know what this is and better yet, how to kill it?
May God smile on you for sharing your hard fought fruits with us!Now for the grunt work... here are a few hundred pasture weeds that grow in New Mexico. It's slow and tedious but sometimes the only way is go through university publications in your area. Here are photos and drawings of a few hundred plants.
Trick... copy and paste the latin name of a plant from the publication into your favorite search engine, select images. Even if a university publication only has crappy drawings, someone, somewhere, has posted nice color photos of the same plant.
Also, a key indicator is the bloom of a plant, color, shape etc can really help narrow it down. Be aware, lots of plants have green blooms, like ragweed.
A place to start...
https://aces.nmsu.edu/pubs/_circulars/CR374/
https://aces.nmsu.edu/pubs/_circulars/CR698/welcome.html
I have stuff that looks like that that is a curse in my gardens. If I dont get get all of the rhizome it comes right back. I pull out rhizomes that are 2' long and have 2 other plants attached.I do not know it.
We have Johnson Grass here, animals eat it. It is said that round up will Kill it, after four years of spraying it.
Johnson grass or Johnsongrass, Sorghum halepense, is a plant in the grass family, Poaceae, native to Asia and northern Africa. The plant has been introduced to all continents except Antarctica, and most larger islands and archipelagos. It reproduces by rhizomes and seeds. Wikipedia
I do not know it.
We have Johnson Grass here, animals eat it. It is said that round up will Kill it, after four years of spraying it.
Johnson grass or Johnsongrass, Sorghum halepense, is a plant in the grass family, Poaceae, native to Asia and northern Africa. The plant has been introduced to all continents except Antarctica, and most larger islands and archipelagos. It reproduces by rhizomes and seeds. Wikipedia
Here is a photo I found of rabbit brush aka Ericameria nauseosa. The dead stems look a lot like the 1st photo you posted...
Also, from Colorado state university...
"What is rabbitbrush?
Rabbitbrush is one of the most ornamental and useful native plants for a Colorado garden."
1741 - Rabbitbrush - PlantTalk Colorado
View attachment 68866
Cover the area after you cut back the bush to the ground then cover the area with 2 or more layers of cardboard. Cover the cardboard with top soil and then seed it. Everything under the cardboard should die and the cardboard will decay in time.I had bushes like that too. They plagued my beautiful lawn. I tried to get rid of them, but nothing worked. They kept sprouting. I like to keep my plot clean and, until recently, I didn't want to touch the lawn, but I had to uproot them and re-grow the lawn, but after a while, the bushes reappeared. Someone advised me to use chemicals. But I didn't want to use them, as I would have contaminated the soil, and there would have been a hole in the middle of the lawn. My neighbor told me that I could remove the topsoil and put an artificial lawn in from https://www.artificialgrass-manchester.co.uk/ because nothing was growing at my place anyway.
Enter your email address to join: