Dock challenge

[Daddy Pig]

This is my neighbours field, 2nd year of a new let following wheat, can anyone beat it for dock infestation

 

[Ukjay]

Is he letting it go - or is he - she / has he - she treated it?

 

[Hilly]

Is he letting it go - or is he - she / has he - she treated it?

If i was on paddy power id have purple back on "letting it go" gone.

 

[Daddy Pig]

no sign of any treatment,none last year either.

 

[milkloss]

Wow, that’s a good crop! What’s he do with the ‘grass’?

 

[Daddy Pig]

baled silage for beef cattle

 

[bobk]

Be nowt left without the docks .

 

[Kevtherev]

That’s a salad crop

 

[Cheesehead]

It is like with one of our neighbours his field is covered in thistles, nettles and rushes but asks us if we want to graze it, he won't spray it as he doesn't like chemicals being used yet seems to forget that everyone else has to use twice as much because all the seedheads that blow from it

 

[Daddy Pig]

luckily this field is to the east of us so most of the seed blows away from us

 

[Ukjay]

That’s a salad crop

Yeh, for neighbours you don't like

 

[Ukjay]

I have often wondered this, as I see a lot of areas left to go to ruin - whereby is it a legal concern in respect of allowing the seed dispersal ruining your land?

 

[ollie989898]

Shame docks arent a forage crop.

 

[Agrispeed]

Shame docks arent a forage crop.

They can be

 

[yellowbelly]

We went to Eskdale show lat year - they had a class in the horticultural section for the biggest dock leaf. Looks like your neighbour would be odds on favourite

They also had one for the longest nettle

 

[anzani]

Time for "Pick your own"?
See:
http://www.organicauthority.com/foodie-buzz/foraging-for-wild-dock-edible-food.html

 

[New Puritan]

Was it like that before it got rented out? Maybe that's why the landlord wanted someone else to be responsible for it?

 

[eagleye]

wouldnt be chickory by any chance?

 

[Cheesehead]

When we've grown it and it's come thick we had a lot of light purple flowers bees loved them and the lambs loved the leaves.

 

[ollie989898]

If anyone is asking the question the answer is 2 litres of forefront.