Help !!! Name the weed ......

[Breckland Boy]

The first pic looks a bit like flixweed.

 

[Brisel]

The first pic looks a bit like flixweed.

The cotyledons look a better match

 

[robbie]

That's the stuff well done @Breckland Boy

As soon as you said it, it clicked. I'd been thinking knapweed all day which I know it's not.

 

[robbie]

That's the stuff well done @Breckland Boy

As soon as you said it, it clicked. I'd been thinking knapweed all day which I know it's not.

 

[Breckland Boy]

I seem to grow the stuff quite successfully in sugar beet
Tough to control in the dry.
In a cereal a su with cmpp or mcpa to warm it up should suffice

 

[robbie]

We've never had a lot of trouble in beet but this year wheat and barley behind beet that wasn't ploughed is full of it in patches.

 

[Jamin]

I’d say similar to Bur Chervil. We get loads of it about here now. Never use to be a problem. Full rate Ally will do it.

 

[robbie]

Ive done a bit of research and apparently it's a brassica of the mustard family.

Herbicides are 24d, mcpa,dicambs and most of the su's, e.g. ally max for cereals and debut for beet.
It would be a real problem in rape though, the only option is clear field variety and imazimox.

 

[Boohoo]

Anyone know what this is?

Never seen it around our place before but this year we've got 3 fields covered in it.

 

[Kidds]

Bittercress
There are a few of them, looks like Hairy Bittercress from the pic.

Annual weed, when ripe the seed pods twang open when touched/disturbed throwing the seeds out. Nightmare in cabbage when cutting by hand as the seeds get in your eyes summat rotten. In bad cases we would walk each row just to get the seeds out before we bent down to cut them.

 

[Boohoo]

Bittercress
There are a few of them, looks like Hairy Bittercress from the pic.

Annual weed, when ripe the seed pods twang open when touched/disturbed throwing the seeds out. Nightmare in cabbage when cutting by hand as the seeds get in your eyes summat rotten. In bad cases we would walk each row just to get the seeds out before we bent down to cut them.

Thank you. Any idea how to control it in grass? It doesn't appear on the labels of any herbicides I'm familiar with.

 

[Kidds]

Thank you. Any idea how to control it in grass? It doesn't appear on the labels of any herbicides I'm familiar with.

I would expect it to die off anyway if it’s at the stage in the pic so not sure it’s worth spraying. Surprised the grass didn’t out compete it anyway, has the grass had a knock?
Any of the hormones would likely get it, cheap and cheerful.

 

[ollie989898]

I think Polo will fold bittercress up.

 

[Boohoo]

I would expect it to die off anyway if it’s at the stage in the pic so not sure it’s worth spraying. Surprised the grass didn’t out compete it anyway, has the grass had a knock?
Any of the hormones would likely get it, cheap and cheerful.

Bad management for a few years has left an open sward with a lot of bare ground that has let the weeds in. I have to spray for buttercup and chickweed too.

 

[ollie989898]

Bad management for a few years has left an open sward with a lot of bare ground that has let the weeds in. I have to spray for buttercup and chickweed too.

Starane and Polo in the tank on your new ley then.

Keep the Polo up.

 

[Boohoo]

Starane and Polo in the tank on your new ley then.

Keep the Polo up.

The new ley will have to wait a year or two. If it's too late to spray the bittercress I'll hit the buttercup and chickweed with Envy and stitch a bit of grass seed in after 1st cut