A picture of the issue. Not too bothered by some thistles, but concerned about the state of the soil with heave and erosion. Thank you everyone for your thoughts.
A picture of the issue. Not too bothered by some thistles, but concerned about the state of the soil with heave and erosion. Thank you everyone for your thoughts.
Thanks everyone. Good advice. No ploughing, don't overgraze, soil test, rest field, fertilizer, reseed, possibly trample thistles/possibly spray/let them grow. Get fungi in the soil. :)
We have a chalk field on a slope and in the last 5 or so years there has been increasing erosion and upheave. What can we do to stop it getting worse? There is a spring running underground nearby and it is grazed most of the year by sheep. It hasn't been reseeded for many years and thistles...
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