One of my frequent landscaping tasks in summer is weeding at clients’ properties. Many of the weeds can be hand-pulled, but on a recent occasion there was such an abundance of Prostrate Spurge (Euphorbia maculata) that it was hopeless to try to pull it in a reasonable amount of time.
Read about how we decided to deal with the Spurge on the Schnarr’s Hardware Blog!
![Controlling Prostrate Spurge](http://i2.wp.com/schnarrsblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/scourge_of_spurge.jpg?resize=400%2C206)
At the left is a spurge-infested patch, and on the right is how it looks after the soil is turned over with a spade. Since we are not going to plant anything here, we don’t need to take the time to break up the clay chunks – nature will do the job over time.