Good on you for getting after the puncture vine/goatheads. It's about the only thing I use spray on where I live. Like you............I HATE THAT STUFF. I go around barefoot or in sandals alot, not a good thing around goatheads.

I haven't seen it yet on our place in Cali, I know it's in the area though, have seen it in town.

We found out about a new to us weed there this spring though, burr buttercup. It grows in the gravelly part of our yard. It's not fun for running around barefoot either.

https://duckduckgo.com/?q=burr+buttercup+picture&t=ffsb&ia=images

Have you folks ever dealt with it? I'm thinking about going after it early in the spring with my weed burner as we have other plants/flowers there that won't allow broadcast spraying with an herbicide. If it takes me a few years to get it all out (we're surrounded by wildlands so I think I might be fighting for a while) well, I'm retiring so I'll just have a spring project to go on the whiteboard.

Geno

The desert is a true treasure for him who seeks refuge from men and the evil of men.
In it is contentment
In it is death and all you seek
(Quoted from "The Bleeding of the Stone" Ibrahim Al-Koni)

member of the cabal of dysfunctional squirrels?