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"Improving Our Lot" - Planned Holistic Grazing, for starters..
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<blockquote data-quote="Kiwi Pete" data-source="post: 6726777" data-attributes="member: 63856"><p>Just to scorch things a little - acetic acid</p><p>I made a fair bit of homebrew ACV a few years ago and we ran about 120 litres thru a mate's still to concentrate it up - it's the secret ingredient in my gorse spray <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite2" alt=";)" title="Wink ;)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=";)" /></p><p></p><p>No secret now..... however just to give the thistles a bit of a burn, I am putting an extra bit on, I had a play with various things in these paddocks last year and salt definitely seems to cause cell burst in lignified plant material</p><p></p><p>So we help the salt into the plant and not into the soil by:</p><p>1 aiming for 100+ groundcover <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite24" alt="(y)" title="Thumbs Up (y)" loading="lazy" data-shortname="(y)" />[ATTACH=full]853417[/ATTACH]</p><p>Leaving plenty of green and brown grass with the woolly strippers, to soak it up[ATTACH=full]853418[/ATTACH][ATTACH=full]853419[/ATTACH]</p><p>Then we'll aid uptake into the leaf/stem by tank-mixing humates and seaweed/fish goop that the plants want. I'm really keen to see what happens with the humate as I've not used it before.</p><p></p><p>It tastes like salty coal juice, I took 100mm in a cup.</p><p></p><p>Shame it'll sizzle the plants tops, however it shouldn't even get to the root as we are only giving it a whiff of salty acid, so the grass will still regenerate before too long - just stall it a month (hence the goodies for the soil)</p><p></p><p>The clover, being relatively stripped out by the lambs, should be left fairly intact and regen faster than the thistles/grasses, which I expect will just crumple down onto the surface after another run-over with the sheeps as I drill it.</p><p></p><p>That's the perfect plan, now let's see what goes wrong.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Kiwi Pete, post: 6726777, member: 63856"] Just to scorch things a little - acetic acid I made a fair bit of homebrew ACV a few years ago and we ran about 120 litres thru a mate's still to concentrate it up - it's the secret ingredient in my gorse spray ;) No secret now..... however just to give the thistles a bit of a burn, I am putting an extra bit on, I had a play with various things in these paddocks last year and salt definitely seems to cause cell burst in lignified plant material So we help the salt into the plant and not into the soil by: 1 aiming for 100+ groundcover (y)[ATTACH type="full"]853417[/ATTACH] Leaving plenty of green and brown grass with the woolly strippers, to soak it up[ATTACH type="full"]853418[/ATTACH][ATTACH type="full"]853419[/ATTACH] Then we'll aid uptake into the leaf/stem by tank-mixing humates and seaweed/fish goop that the plants want. I'm really keen to see what happens with the humate as I've not used it before. It tastes like salty coal juice, I took 100mm in a cup. Shame it'll sizzle the plants tops, however it shouldn't even get to the root as we are only giving it a whiff of salty acid, so the grass will still regenerate before too long - just stall it a month (hence the goodies for the soil) The clover, being relatively stripped out by the lambs, should be left fairly intact and regen faster than the thistles/grasses, which I expect will just crumple down onto the surface after another run-over with the sheeps as I drill it. That's the perfect plan, now let's see what goes wrong. [/QUOTE]
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