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Post by VeronicaF on May 20, 2015 21:03:05 GMT 1
will I win the war, just been out for 2 hours picking it up, hate it hate ragwort!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! it seems the worst this year, grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr do you just hate ragwort?  |
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Post by portiabuzz on May 20, 2015 21:51:31 GMT 1
Yes horrid plant..
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Post by mollichop on May 27, 2015 7:41:46 GMT 1
I hate the way it surreptitiously grows in the field. You can walk round and nothing, not a rosette anywhere, *cue smug feeling*
A few days later you can walk around the same field and find not only what seems like hundreds of rosettes but a few good sized bliddy bushes of the stuff aswell!!!! How!? When?! Aaaarrrrrggggghhhh now cue screaming banshee wielding an unwieldy rag fork, empty feed bag and buckets of determination to beat the stuff!!! Hopefully without resorting to chemical means but I am not ruling that out!
Good Luck with your own battle on the horrible green stuff!
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Post by portiabuzz on May 27, 2015 11:37:09 GMT 1
They hide away am sure !
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Post by Furiey on May 27, 2015 20:38:26 GMT 1
Ragwort seems to have the world's best camouflage system. I'll dig every little bit I can see then the next day there is a plant over a foot tall with bright yellow flowers that was invisible the day before. If I could patent this ability I could make a fortune.
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Post by portiabuzz on May 28, 2015 0:07:25 GMT 1
It's a horrid plant
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Post by VeronicaF on May 28, 2015 21:01:42 GMT 1
it is true, you spend hours getting rid of it all, lovely clear field then next day its like you haen't cleared anything
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Post by VeronicaF on May 28, 2015 21:05:38 GMT 1
my neighbour has sprayed their field but they haven't got any animals on it its strong smelling stuff and its killed everything
I can't spray because of charm and little ones
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Post by Hannah on May 29, 2015 7:51:49 GMT 1
I've got a ragfork which is really good for digging up ragwort.
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Post by kafee on May 29, 2015 11:22:04 GMT 1
I've had a lot less ragwort since the conservation group upwind of my field started digging/pulling the ragwort at least once a year!  They liked it as the flowers are popular with butterflys, but I pointed out that they wouldn't be very popular with local landowners/users. The clincher was the owner of the cattle that they are using for conservation grazing telling them that if they didn't control it, it would take over. |
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Post by Catrin on Jun 5, 2015 8:37:56 GMT 1
The only way to eliminate it is to spot spray with Barrier H, preferably in Spring, when it's just rosettes. Pulling can reduce it and make it safe this year, but has the disadvantage of disturbing the soil, which allows ragwort seeds, which can lie dormant for up to twenty years, to germinate. Some research showed that in some cases when a plant was pulled, four new plants grew the following year. There's a Facebook page called Ragwort and How to Survive It, which separates the facts from myths. |
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Post by cbc on Jun 5, 2015 16:47:39 GMT 1
A few years ago we had a tough problem with ragwort in one of our fields ( near some quarried land with disturbed topsoil). We made the mistake of trying to tackle the florets in spring and found that the exposed rootlets grew again.  I have less horses here now (no longer doing liveries) which helps and weeds are spot sprayed. Any that I dig out I wait till later in the summer. Horrid stuff. |
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