Attack of the Tumbleweeds
Occurred on January 16, 2020 / Mendota, California, USA. It was windy and tumbleweeds were rolling and leapfrogging over each other. They were also jumping over an eight-foot-high fence. As I was standing there outside behind my truck to stay safe and not get run over by the tumbleweeds, one of the tumbleweeds jumped over the truck and took me out about a minute and 30 seconds into the video. What did you think? Please leave a comment in the section below and remember to share the video and sign up for our free newsletter!
February 4, 2020 @ 8:31 pm
The Russian Thistle isn’t the prettiest plant out there, by any stretch of the imagination! But I have always been fascinated by them. When they are green, that is about the toughest, most resilient piece of plant life you will ever wrestle with! Almost impossible to break a branch off – you are lucky if you can chop one off with a machete! But, in the fall, when time comes for them to propagate, the nature of the plant reveals itself. The tumbleweed is a giant bundle of small branches. Each of those branches is segmented – and each segment has propagation elements (I don’t know if they are really seeds or not, but I call them seeds.) The stem, so tough and wiry a few weeks before, becomes fragile. A strong wind will break the plant loose from the ground and off it goes, earning it’s name! As it tumbles, the small branches break off. It is scattering its seeds across the ground – and spreading them for miles! What a brilliant solution to how to get your seeds exposed to fertile ground and in as large a path as possible!