Bracken

[Y Fan Wen]

On the patches sprayed last year and followed up this year, after senescence set in in September, I discovered that there is new soft green regrowth coming. As the Asulox was finished, I have been wiping them with a hand held glypho dispenser which they don't like. Only now in November is the new growth succumbing to the season.
Wasn't too laborious doing it as I went round on my looking trips.

 

[Y Fan Wen]

We're good to go again next year;

http://www.brackencontrol.co.uk/asulam

I'm going to order before July this time as I lost a week/10days this year due to a certain well known carrier not wanting to take his glossy new van up the cwm.
How is exmoor dave's new wiper going?

 

[exmoor dave]

We're good to go again next year;

http://www.brackencontrol.co.uk/asulam

I'm going to order before July this time as I lost a week/10days this year due to a certain well known carrier not wanting to take his glossy new van up the cwm.
How is exmoor dave's new wiper going?

Still at the thinking stage,


Landlord has offered to pay for asulox if I spray it on (with 12m sprayer) so weed wiper might stay at thinking stage for another year.


Results from my handheld boomless nozzle on the end of a long hose using round up are looking very promising, so more of that next year, on a longer hose possibly

 

[holywell farmer]

Still at the thinking stage,


Landlord has offered to pay for asulox if I spray it on (with 12m sprayer) so weed wiper might stay at thinking stage for another year.


Results from my handheld boomless nozzle on the end of a long hose using round up are looking very promising, so more of that next year, on a longer hose possibly

Would group of donkeys eat bracken

 

[Y Fan Wen]

I find that all livestock tend to browse it but nothing more than that.
What I see is that it spreads much quicker in fields which are shut up for hay every year.
I know cutting the crop will control it, but all my fields have patches which the mower can't touch.

 

[Alicecow]

Would group of donkeys eat bracken

Maybe, but I thought it was toxic to them.

 

[holywell farmer]

Maybe, but I thought it was toxic to them.

Goat bet there guts can cope with anything

 

[Y Fan Wen]

I spent part of the Christmas period delving deep into the bracken control website.
I found something there which caused my eyebrows to be raised and some sucking of teeth.
I'm going to leave it at that because I am reluctant to bring it more into the public view.

 

[JohnGalway]

I spent part of the Christmas period delving deep into the bracken control website.
I found something there which caused my eyebrows to be raised and some sucking of teeth.
I'm going to leave it at that because I am reluctant to bring it more into the public view.

Care to share via PM? I believe "All bracken must die" (was) the secret code word.

 

[exmoor dave]

Care to share via PM? I believe "All bracken must die" (was) the secret code word.

+1

 

[Oat]

+1

+1 please

 

[Y Fan Wen]

I came across the first new bracken frond this morning.
It was 'not' where I sprayed last year.

 

[Oat]

Was it close nearby?. Roots/rhizomes can spread underground

 

[Y Fan Wen]

Was it close nearby?. Roots/rhizomes can spread underground

Good fifty yards to a treated patch.

 

[JohnGalway]

Results from my handheld boomless nozzle on the end of a long hose using round up are looking very promising, so more of that next year, on a longer hose possibly

Got a photo of that set up Dave? Bought 100 meters of pressure hose for spraying as the garden hose wasn't giving as much distance as I thought I could get.

 

[exmoor dave]

Got a photo of that set up Dave? Bought 100 meters of pressure hose for spraying as the garden hose wasn't giving as much distance as I thought I could get.

I'll see what I can find tomorrow.


The boomless nozzle I bought was something like 16m spread on full spread, but it comes with two end plates, if you swap them around it then only sprays to one side to about 8/10m depending on the wind.

I've got it bolted on the end of a light piece of pipe about 8ft long.
Run it off 50m of 1/2" garden hose on a 12v 25lt/min pump,
Always try to position the pump so it's pumping down hill.

I mark out the plot with tall white leccy fence posts, 8/10m apart, then walk down each pass holding the nozzle high as possible, using the wind to blow the spray abit further,
Only using cheap glypo so I turn round at the end and spray back again.

Last year's plot looks like it's worked very well judging by how much grass is growing there compared to the surrounding untreated bracken litter.

Plan for this year is 100m of 3/4" hose run off the tractor sprayer, possibly even more hose if the pump can keep up.

 

[Y Fan Wen]

Asulox arrived today ready for the 1st July start date. Don't think the bracken is ready yet tho'.
I've upgraded the sp sprayer this year. I have a tank front and back with a 50m hose on one and 25 on the other.
Have to move the electric feed from one to the other.

 

[exmoor dave]

Asulox arrived today ready for the 1st July start date. Don't think the bracken is ready yet tho'.
I've upgraded the sp sprayer this year. I have a tank front and back with a 50m hose on one and 25 on the other.
Have to move the electric feed from one to the other.

Landlords have offered to buy 40l of asulox to do a site if I apply it with our 12m sprayer ......happy days.


Had excellent results with lance &rain drop nozzle, 8/10m passes, so going to add 50m of 3/4" hose to the rig to get at the next pass of bracken below the lot I did with 50m of 1/2" hose last year.

 

[Oat]

Asulox arrived today ready for the 1st July start date. Don't think the bracken is ready yet tho'.
I've upgraded the sp sprayer this year. I have a tank front and back with a 50m hose on one and 25 on the other.
Have to move the electric feed from one to the other.

You need to spray when the ferns have unrolled, but before they have started to harden off. In some areas July would be too early, and August-early September would be appropriate. But obviously it should be based upon local conditions.

 

[Y Fan Wen]

You need to spray when the ferns have unrolled, but before they have started to harden off. In some areas July would be too early, and August-early September would be appropriate. But obviously it should be based upon local conditions.

Yes, last year senescence was setting in before August was out and one year on a very high patch it was end of July.
I'm going to try a test patch next week.