- Location
- north Wales
Weed wiper and mcpa works well, it works better if they are mowed first but will hit them hard without, and do it again next year to get them all
Dealing with rushes...
- Thread starter Adam@Rumen
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Greythundercloudys
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This is about the right time to do it up here, just when the flower is on them, l would roll them down, then as folk have said a good strong spray of mspa . I wouldn't cut them this year, as they die from the tip down, cut next May, also get some ding on the ground if you can. It all the wet weather that makes them grow, lime would help also.
Are you supposed to use anything other than roundup in a weedwiper? I was told no even though it sounds really stupid
ollie989898
Member
Depends if a chemical is licensed for weed wiper use.
Sorry wasnt clear then. I thought roundup was the only chemical that was lisenced for use in a wiper?
ollie989898
Member
I dont actually know, given how effective roundup is when wiping I dont know why you wouldnt just use that.
My take is need to either mow first then spray 6 weeks later or vice versa
Mcpa is all that is needed, we used to spray thousands of acres of hill ground before Stewardship.
Spray just before flowering which is end June early July around here
Weed wiping is slow and will kill only a percentage at best so will need to be repeated 3 years in a row to be effective
Lime / muck/ fertiliser will all help but purely because it will increase fertility thus stocking rates which will encourage stock to nibble them off when they are short.
Find they are a very easy weed to kill personally but various schemes have allowed them to become more dominant around here in recent years. On this farm they have offered us a very poor replacement for stewardship so the plan will be to abandon this scheme and go back to taking all of them out and improving the ground in that scheme for sheep.
Mcpa is all that is needed, we used to spray thousands of acres of hill ground before Stewardship.
Spray just before flowering which is end June early July around here
Weed wiping is slow and will kill only a percentage at best so will need to be repeated 3 years in a row to be effective
Lime / muck/ fertiliser will all help but purely because it will increase fertility thus stocking rates which will encourage stock to nibble them off when they are short.
Find they are a very easy weed to kill personally but various schemes have allowed them to become more dominant around here in recent years. On this farm they have offered us a very poor replacement for stewardship so the plan will be to abandon this scheme and go back to taking all of them out and improving the ground in that scheme for sheep.
- Location
- north Wales
My weedwiper is the logic one with a brush, when it wipes something a bit solid especially a clump of rushes, the brush will splash chemical forwards,killing a patch of grass
Greythundercloudys
Member
You see it up here where l stay, fields going back to rushes, My father always said it took good soil to grow strong rushes , just need some money spent, spraying or ploughing, also that lime you can spread in the spinner helps also. I sprayed some on Friday.
michael N123
Member
My logic one has the wheels behind the brush so you get yellow strips if you use roundup
- Location
- north Wales
I didn't find that....but it did make an embarrassing 8ft wide yellow trail across a silage field after I went across it too fast.....
- Location
- Ceredigion
I have found 24 D a waste of time on rushes , if it improves in a blend I dont know but will stick with full rate mcpa in the future
surprisefarmer
Member
- Location
- North West NI
I cut my rushes down with the topper the day of the royal wedding, going to hit them with MCPA 6 weeks after that and hopefully that will get a good hit, aim to do it next year again to really get rid of them.
I did this sequence about 6 years ago and it work ed very well, then I went away to work and my dad didn't keep the routine up and the feckers are trying to take over again, that long wet winter gave them all the encouragement they needed.
I did this sequence about 6 years ago and it work ed very well, then I went away to work and my dad didn't keep the routine up and the feckers are trying to take over again, that long wet winter gave them all the encouragement they needed.
dt995
Member
- Location
- Carmarthenshire
I wouldn't advise people to schedule such operations around Royal Weddings, though.
(In case there isn't one around the time you want to be doing it.)
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surprisefarmer
Member
- Location
- North West NI
It was a good day to head off, both my wife and my mother had banned me from their house respectivelyYeah but they won’t be too strong when the divorce comes around
Woolless
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- Location
- Berwickshire, Scottish Borders
I have seen very good results with this method at SAC Kirkton.
Yeah but they won’t be too strong when the divorce comes around
But the hassle of a divorce is nothing compared to the hassle of defeating rushes!!
- Location
- Ceredigion
You gaining value ridding yourself of rushes , a divorce will leave you with nothing