How do I get rid of cactus?

How do I get rid of cactus?

Yeah, that’s one of the more common phrases used to find our site on search engines.

  We had a fellow e-mail us asking…

“need help getting rid of a florida cactus can i use chemicals to destroy the cactus first before i dig it up”

  I wrote back…

“I use a huge mattock-like hoe, with spikes on the other side. The flat blade will slice through the leaves, and I can poke them with the spikes to pick them up for the trash can.

  Once you kill them they might be more likely to drop spines, and might be harder than while alive.

   Have fun! LOL”

   An acting teacher used to tell me.. ‘Acting is simple, it’s just not easy”

   Removing cactus is like acting….

   Yeah, cactus is simple to take out.. but it’s not easy to do. You have to have extreme ‘situational awareness’… it’s like working around a nest of rattlers…. a plant might roll off your shovel impaling your hands to the handle…. be aware, and beware.

   There is a saying among the local cattlemen… “thirty years a cowboy, and ain’t stepped in cow$#!^ yet!”

   Be like that cowboy, work the cactus, but don’t let the cactus leave you scarred for life.

   We have another local saying… “as down-to-earth as horse$%!^ in a meadow”.