[Corin Stormhands]

My brother has big problems with sand burrs in their yard at the beach house. They keep fighting them, but I think that close to the beach it's a losing battle.

[2Jedismom]

Yep. The only real way to get close to getting rid of them is to set up a boundry (like our privacy fence) and then pull them up one by one. We literally laid cardboard down and went over our property (1/4 acre) foot by foot, pulling them gently so as not to shake loose the seeds. I used a butter knife to pop mine up. My fingers still got pretty beat up from it, and bled through my gloves! They are tough buggers.

Each year, we still have them, but each year it's less and less.

[2Jedismom]

And I'm anxious to see if this new fence will keep out the sandburs even more, since the neighbors would mow and just spray them right into our yard through that chain link fence...

It's gotta help!