Chickweed reseed!

[Lewis]

Done a full reseed end of August beginning of September after wholcrop.
Sprayed off with roundup discedx2 Cambridge rolled x2 seededx2 Cambridge rolled x2 again closed gate and had a nice shower of rain a day after seeding….. PERFECT!

Well to say it looks awful would be an understatement! Anyone would think it was a chickweed ley!

got sheep coming for winter next week , will they take out the chickweed and make the grass tiller ?

any suggestions? Its 15 acres and It’s sown with clover.

 

[ritchiekirkland]

I had similar problem last year . Hammered it with sheep but didn’t work . Ended up spraying it but the chickweed was that thick as it died it continued to choke out the grass !
Thought it would need more seed stitched in at backend but it actually came ok bar a couple patches I just threw some grass seed in .
Had success with getting sheep to chew out redshank but not chickweed .

 

[upnortheast]

Always try to spray our Aug reseeds in October, graze hard with sheep in Nov.
Ready to fly in spring.
Might be more expensive / less effective with a clover safe spray.

Some folk put the grass seed in in autumn, clean up the weeds in Oct then harrow & roll in clover seed in April

 

[Jerry]

Would an aggressive grass harrow rip any out?

 

[Bald Rick]

Try aggressively scarifying it with an Enboc or similar. You may lose the clover but save the reseeded grass

 

[Bald Rick]

Dang @Jerry

 

[organicguy]

Get it grazes asap. Harrowing will just pull up heaps which will kill the grass underneath.
Had similar and grazes with cows, thought they weren't doing good enough job and too much damage so stopped. What we grazed was fine in spring, rest had to be re seeded.
I'm desperate to get on some August sown seeds at present but the clover was too small, now too wet!

 

[Lewis]

Yeh wouldn’t be too keen to grass harrow it, like @organicguy says, be left with heaps on the headland and risk pulling out the grass which is there

hammer it for a week with sheep and maybe get some slurry on or box muck? To try and feed what is there?
Field is fairly dry as just done the hedges and didn’t leave a mark .

safe to say currently looks like it will be over seeded in the spring!

 

[Derrick Hughes]

I would mow it and bale it ,not sure if there is clover in there but needs spraying with Hurler, problem is its so high it will die and smother the grass as you have left it to late
These guys say sheep will eat it ,mine will never touch it ,if was mine be mowing it tommo
Hurler will kill clover mind

 

[Yale]

Some say roll it to bruise the chick weed.

 

[Derrick Hughes]

If you roll it it will smother the grass more ,it needs removing fast

 

[Lewis]

Safe to say it won’t be mown ; not with the weather on the turn and it’s a bit of an awkward field with it sloping and a lot of short runs so end up making a mess.

Try and get a load of young stock in it and mob graze it before the sheep maybe

 

[Downtrodden Dad]

I would spray it now, to be honest I think the horse has bolted. Note to self, spray long before it gets this bad 🫣

 

[Derrick Hughes]

Why is Chickweed not a problem in spring resseeds

 

[organicguy]

Why is Chickweed not a problem in spring resseeds

Autumn germinating?

 

[Radio]

Graze , then hopefully you will get a hard frost and pile the sheep on then and their feet should bruise chickweed and kill it. That’s the theory anyway.

 

[wdah/him]

Would the clover be that well established yet. I sprayed a reseed for a man 2 weeks ago not as bad as that for chick weed but grass was growing and no sign of his clover. Went half rate as late in the year I didn't want to stunt the grass too much. Any of the chickweed and creeping weeds are all well checked seedling docks too aim was to cover the rest in the spring when all finally grow but in the mild weather I think his grass will come and beat the weeds

 

[Frank-the-Wool]

Just graze it with as many sheep as possible.
You will be pleasantly surprised at how good a job they do by the Spring.

 

[Tarw Coch]

Why is Chickweed not a problem in spring resseeds

Gets smothered by the fat hen