It occurs to me that perhaps this particular bit of acreage wasn't the best place to build a "subdivision" of homes, streets and driveways...
Which came first? The developer/builder, or the tumbleweeds?! Or do you suppose this is a "tumbleweed of the century" event?
; )
It could have been worse. They might have been trapped by a 22 lb cat with anger issues.
Probably the developer came first.
Russian thistle isn’t very competitive. It moves in where someone has taken out grass or crop fields and left it fallow, something that developers love to do. They come in, level out a piece of ground, and then leave it with nothing planted and ready to grow. Up comes the cheatgrass and russian thistle, and away things go.