Bracken for bedding
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- Breconshire
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£5000 worth of damage to your mower to save £12.50 on buying straw ?
- Location
- Yorkshire
Doesn't look much to damage a mower here£5000 worth of damage to your mower to save £12.50 on buying straw ?
Cowabunga
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- Ceredigion,Wales
I wouldn't touch it with a barge pole. Not only are the spores carcinogenic and tiny but it is also carcinogenic to animals that might eat it in any form.
On top of which it commonly harbours ticks, many of which carry the debilitating and sometimes fatal Lyme Disease. Ignore these risks at your peril.
www.independent.co.uk
On top of which it commonly harbours ticks, many of which carry the debilitating and sometimes fatal Lyme Disease. Ignore these risks at your peril.
Outdoors: Beware the bracken fronds
Avoid ferny ground this summer: the plants harbour ticks carrying a debilitating disease. By Malcolm Smith
www.independent.co.uk
michael N123
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michael N123
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That’s because it’s basically a Badly managed silage field
most people have bracken on bits of land you struggle to get a quad and weed wiper to travel on....
- Location
- Yorkshire
I no we've plenty like that would have to walk it and spray it with a hand lance
Pistonbroke
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It's common land in a national park! The grazier hasn't got the right to loose in and improve it
- Location
- Hereford
I was always told that bracken carried a cancer risk . Father would never use it for that reason .......I wouldn't touch it with a barge pole. Not only are the spores carcinogenic and tiny but it is also carcinogenic to animals that might eat it in any form.
On top of which it commonly harbours ticks, many of which carry the debilitating and sometimes fatal Lyme Disease. Ignore these risks at your peril.
Outdoors: Beware the bracken fronds
Avoid ferny ground this summer: the plants harbour ticks carrying a debilitating disease. By Malcolm Smith
- Location
- Breconshire
It's common land. We don't own it so we cannot cultivate or improve it.
- Location
- Breconshire
If you cut it when it's really green, it will weaken the plant and eventually it might only grow a few inches tall. Cut it when it's going brown and it'll keep growing.
Tubbylew
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- Location
- Herefordshire
The old timers here used to cut it and haul it with a horsedrawn sledge, apparantly it's reasonable bedding for sheep as it doesn't get stuck in their feet. I think my uncle may still bale a bit, but he's more of a mountain man than I. I think braken is the main cause of "red water" in cattle, but I may be mistaken.
exmoor dave
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- Location
- exmoor, uk
The tick that transmits Redwater thrives on Bracken-infested land.
exmoor dave
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- Location
- exmoor, uk
Haha! Apart from cleaning up the matt of bracken litter and knocking back the layer of brambles that is often at the base of a bracken strand, burning doesn't doing anything for control of bracken.
Fun though
Would get rid of a few ticks ?Haha! Apart from cleaning up the matt of bracken litter and knocking back the layer of brambles that is often at the base of a bracken strand, burning doesn't doing anything for control of bracken.
Fun though