Russian thistles, commonly known as “tumbleweeds” got their name from their unique way of rolling with the wind.

This is especially effective on weeds with short dormancy periods, such as kochia, goat’s beard, hare’s ear mustard, Indian mustard, Russian thistle, cow cockle, green foxtail, downy brome, wild ...

This practice can be especially successful at reducing the weed seedbank of winter annual and early emerging species, such as stinkweed, knotweed, Russian pigweed, Russian thistle, lambs quarters, ...