Through the years the most effective method we found for eliminating desert loving plants was water, lots and lots of water
dun
> Not many things...lol. Years ago
> when I was in landscaping business
> in Colorado, we used to dig small
> plants and containerize them for
> sale to the locals for landscape
> plants--dought hardy and
> "natural." People still
> buy them in metropolitan areas.
> That aside, they have VERY long
> tap roots--secret of their
> survival. Other than using a
> backhoe to dig them up, probably a
> concentrated herbicide at the
> crown of the plant.
> Incidentally the same problem
> exists with "native gourd
> vines" which also have very
> beefy and deep taproots with
> offshoots producing offspring
> plants distance from the mother
> plant.
