Best post emergence spray for new grass ley
- Thread starter RJ1
- Start date
- Location
- East Sussex
Forget the clover. If you try and save it you’ll only end up with a ley full of crap.
Scholsey
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- Location
- Herefordshire
Only field I ever sprayed which red and white clover survived was with headland triad (tablets) and sprayed at night, presumably sleeping clover takes less chemical than awake clover? Did 2 other patches with same mix and killed 95% of clover.
betweenthelines
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- Location
- southwest
Top and fertilise it, the new grasses will outgrow and smother most weeds
I know a fellow that sprays his grass fields at night for that very reason,he reckons the clover is curled up and won’t absorb the chemicals. He swears that it works. Never tried it myself because my contractor prefers to work during the day!!
- Location
- cornwall
I have never seen docks or thistles get smoothered out! They thrive!
Scholsey
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- Location
- Herefordshire
If plant breeders could make a dock more nutritious and palatable they would be zillionaires.
I have very few if any docks as the sheep eat them,thistles now I have plenty of them.
Homesy
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- Location
- North West Devon
No they wouldn't. They would go out of business. You would only need to plant them once. That's why no plant breeder has ever improved docks.
Moorlands
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- Location
- West yorkshire
Leystar is what my advisor recommends it’s not clover safe but clover is reasonably persistent and will survive.
Feasible to do with GPS guidance these days too, else it's two family members, each with a torch, on the headlands as markers guides!
- Location
- Northumberland
Iv`e heard of folk sowing grass seeds without clover in the Autumn. Giving the weeds a good blast with hurler or similar late back end or early spring. Then sow clover seeds after that.
Not sure how successful it is. Probably dependant on the weather playing ball
Not sure how successful it is. Probably dependant on the weather playing ball
ollie989898
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Use a mixture of polo and hatchet. Not clover safe.
- Location
- Easter ross
how unreasonable of your contractor.........it’s Sod’s law, last yr we did an endrig of red clover pre silage with clover safe spray and it nailed the clover good and proper. This year did an endrig of docks with minstrel and the clover had a headache but was fine
Tarw Coch
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- Location
- Bottom of Wats Dyke
Just a thought but contractor has got my fields mapped in the gps on his Bateman, does that mean he could spray in the dark without the need to see where he was going now?
Wether he would want or be willing to is another matter.
That said his sprayer looks to be equipped with some pretty hefty LED’s so visibility shouldn’t be a problem anyway
