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Posted: Aug 03 2005 at 6:11pm | IP Logged Quote MacBeth
I have a massive thisle in my yard. If anyone would like seeds from it, send me a sase at PO Box 5, Floral Park, NY 11002 (attn: thistle seeds). I will post photos in a few days.

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Posted: Aug 04 2005 at 7:43am | IP Logged Quote lilac hill
Is it "legal" to send thistle?
Thistle is the new bane to our fields. We have some in the pasture and unfortunately in our hay field. Larue, the farmer who makes hay from our land, is very unhappy it is there because it reduces the value of the hay. If only you could see him shaking his head in disgust-multiflora rose, mad cow disease, prices of seed more than doubling in one year, land prices so high farmers cannot afford to farm, one beef butcher where there were many(and not a very good one),state programs that take farmland and return it to wild land--paying the owners more than a farmer can pay, thistle in our fields...    Fortunately he is used to having to deal with a woman, this woman, in charge of land decisions.
That said, I love it--the goldfinches go crazy for it. I have seen a whole flock on it--just do not tell Larue.
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Posted: Aug 04 2005 at 8:36am | IP Logged Quote MacBeth
lilac hill wrote:
Is it "legal" to send thistle?
Thistle is the new bane to our fields.


Hmm. Thanks for pointing that out Viv. I had not thought about that (I don't grow hay...at least not on purpose ).

My thoughts were two-fold...

My first thought was scientific--growing thistle is interesting and the plant is pretty, if sharp. My second thought was poetic--it would be fun to share some of the "down of a thistle." Of course, if it is an agricultural nightmare to share thistle , that's the end of that (is thistle for bird feeders sterile?). But if anyone wants just the "down" I can tuck it into an envalope and send it off.

If you live on a farm, or near one, no thistle!

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