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I know it's early but I've got some fields of bracken to spray for a customer with a tractor sprayer and I'm wondering what the best product is out there?
Best product to spray Bracken/Fern
- Thread starter Kevtherev
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I could walk down it but not up it's a bit steep [emoji51][emoji23]
ZXR17
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I believe Asulam has just been re registered for bracken control
exmoor dave
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Ah.....that was ruddy hard work......and didn't work
exmoor dave
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If customer has deep pockets and/or the bracken is abit open, use asulox.......but it will cost £££££
Other wise Round up
This bit was done with asulox two summers running (you must do follow up treatments or its a waste of time), nothing what so ever done- no seed fert or lime- now we've got a hell of abit of grass now
+1 for Asulox
It can only be applied via an EAMU, and only during certain periods of the year.
You need the application timing exactly right, and it should kill most bracken, with maybe only minimal spot spraying or follow up the following year.
The optimum timing is once all fronds have unrolled, but before the fronds/leaves have hardened off. It is all to do with the timing of movement of nutrients up or down the plant. If you do it too early all nutrition is going up from the roots to the fronds, whereas if you it later, all the energy is going back down to the root to help next year's growth. You need to get the chemical into the roots to kill it.
It might be expensive compared to glyphosate, but it is safer on grass and some other plants. But in practice, if you have a high density and complete cover, you aren't going to get much glyphosate on plants underneath (if there are any) anyway, so non selective kill from glyphosate may not be a problem.
It can only be applied via an EAMU, and only during certain periods of the year.
You need the application timing exactly right, and it should kill most bracken, with maybe only minimal spot spraying or follow up the following year.
The optimum timing is once all fronds have unrolled, but before the fronds/leaves have hardened off. It is all to do with the timing of movement of nutrients up or down the plant. If you do it too early all nutrition is going up from the roots to the fronds, whereas if you it later, all the energy is going back down to the root to help next year's growth. You need to get the chemical into the roots to kill it.
It might be expensive compared to glyphosate, but it is safer on grass and some other plants. But in practice, if you have a high density and complete cover, you aren't going to get much glyphosate on plants underneath (if there are any) anyway, so non selective kill from glyphosate may not be a problem.
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If you're using asulox, last week of July and first two weeks of August is about the right time in our area kev.
ollie989898
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That is grass is it?
Y Fan Wen
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Asulox as well. Costs a bomb but does the best job.
First year I tried it I didn't think it had worked as it didn't seem to do anything, but then nothing came back in the area I sprayed the following year... and I mean nothing.
First year I tried it I didn't think it had worked as it didn't seem to do anything, but then nothing came back in the area I sprayed the following year... and I mean nothing.
exmoor dave
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Not sure if that's a genuine question or a attempted pee take?
But yes about 6" of the stuff, the photo doesn't do it justice. It's a full summers growth as we winter graze the cliffs. Hence the areas of seed head.
It's been 100% bracken cover my whole life, it's not had any grass seed, just what ever was under the bracken, it's the only vehicle accessible bit of the cliffs so a fair bit of hay was fed there pre- enviro schemes.
If it wasn't a SSSI it would be getting lime and fert, but alas we can't do that, so we have to be chuffed with the progress so far.
Y Fan Wen
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Keep an eye on it the next 2 or 3 years. It has a nasty habit of creeping back without you noticing.
Y Fan Wen
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I presume you are talking about sea cliffs. Which way would the sea be in that photo?
exmoor dave
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I'm pointing the camera north towards the Bristol channel, so the ground drops away beyond the far bank with trees on it, I've sprayed abit beyond that bank....... back tractor down very carefully til I gib out and spray back up over.
It was a foggy morning, other wise you'd be able to see the Welsh coast.
This bit of the cliffs isn't quite so shear, but the rest is all drops and ledges.
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Anyone know where to get asulox/asulam?
multi power
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You bound to be able to invent a system of smuggling clover seed and lime in under the cover of darkness
Don't Wynnstays sell it?
Y Fan Wen
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https://www.progreen.co.uk/asulox
They will start deliveries at the end of June I believe. The Emergency Authorisation starts tomorrow.
Application period from the 1st July until 31st October.
I've got a field thats normally full of bracken, that I want to sort out.
Its steep and rough, so when the bracken is fully grown I can't see where I'm going so don't think it's very safe spraying it then.
However as it's not fully in leaf now I can see where I'm going, can I use aslox? Or am I waisting my time.
I did parts last year through a hand sprayer using gylpho and it's worked well, but don't fancy going 10 acres worth by hand
Its steep and rough, so when the bracken is fully grown I can't see where I'm going so don't think it's very safe spraying it then.
However as it's not fully in leaf now I can see where I'm going, can I use aslox? Or am I waisting my time.
I did parts last year through a hand sprayer using gylpho and it's worked well, but don't fancy going 10 acres worth by hand