Has anyone had good or bad success with stitching new grass seed into an existing high input/output silage sward? We have a block of land in its 5th year ley, fairly open sward with no thatch due to the hybrid/perennial ryegrass mix but it has thinned a bit and we want to rejuvenate it. It's...
We’ve never really seen it before but what started as a small patch on an environmental strip has now swamped 4 acres of crap OSR. It’s a carpet of small yellow flowers atop a small dark green plant that looks like a tomato plant type leaf.
I think I will glypho the 4 acres soon as the OSR isn’t...
Aye-up,
I tidied up a rough corner of the yard two years ago. We then kept a couple of pigs on it and last summer I sowed some wild flower seeds on it.
It looked nice in the autumn, but now it’s just a mass of docks.
What will kill them but leave my wild flower mix?
Cheers, Pete.
As the title suggests what do people recommend/ use for the above in permanent pasture. Usually spray after cutting to clear up most things with a mix of mpca and fluroxypyr but will need to do something about now to control the above as it only comes in the spring
As I have done for a few years now, I sprayed off a grass field and direct drilled in a forage brassica mix. What I normally do once it's grazed off is, leave it a few weeks and spray glyphosate. Once that's had enough time to work I disc it, sow straight away and roll.
This year I am planning...
We’ve planted approx 40ac new seed back in September and all has a lot of chick weed in it any solutions to remove the chick weed and save what grass we have left
Despite the loss of several key herbicides in recent years, leek growers can still achieve effective weed control by using a combination of the remaining active ingredients, with the addition of aclonifen to tank mixes ensuring the full spectrum of annual broad-leaved weeds are accounted for...
Invested with Buttercups, now that they have flowered what is the best method now to control them? I am going to cut the field and clear the grass off.
When do I need to spray, or what's the next thing to do?
I've a field that's contains a fair few broadleaf weeds. Clover is looking well, pH and nutrients are fine, and only other issue is lack of actual grass in places. It's intended to be cut for haylage at the beginning of July
Should I spray off the broadleaves now with MCPA / 2.4D and check the...
Got a few invasive weeds in the garden, so hoping a knapsack of something will sort them out.
Ground elder
And some sort of buttercup - not the creeping sort.
MCPA all I need?
Got a smattering of quite tall groundsel in a field of wheat.is it worth doing anything or will anything do anything at this stage to take it out or not too worry about it
Afternoon,
One of my customers wants their paddocks spraying for buttercups and docks. Is there a spray that does both well. Normally use fluroxpyr based product for docks and 24d for buttercups. Guessing be a waste of time mixing, is there something that does both well?
Thanks
I sprayed a few fields last year but have them back worse than ever this year! Minstrel was the spray, cheap but it appears to be a waste of time and still knocks the grass. Really didn’t want to have to spray this spring mainly because I don’t want to stunt the grass growth when it’s costing so...
Thought I'd kick this off, what are peoples thoughts regarding seedbed feeding this year ?
We are going to increase slurry and apply a foliar n product once the plant is growing.
Annoyingly, I see that I've missed a strip in one of my wheat fields, which is nearly at T1, and a large patch of well grown groundsel is very noticeable.
What can I use to kill it, given that all the chemicals in the spray store don't say that they will control it? Presently I have Eagle...
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