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"Improving Our Lot" - Planned Holistic Grazing, for starters..
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<blockquote data-quote="Guleesh" data-source="post: 8201477" data-attributes="member: 147187"><p>Yes it's back to the idea of not worrying about eradicating what you don't want and concentrate on making conditions favourable for what you do. Still, a bit of tweaking can speed up the process. What I think works for here, for rushes and moss is a bit of targeted management on different areas in winter. The two things need almost opposite treatment IMO.</p><p></p><p>Rush and moss seem to respond well to different winter management, rushes generally just need grazing as hard as possible in winter, if they can be hit hard early on they'll regrow and the regrowth is green and can be chewed off a bit more before spring, then the grass left to outcompete. Usually here at lambing, compromises are made somewhere, and if over grazing any areas at this time it can give a real boost to the rushes, If they eventually grow to the point of being big dead clumps then I'll cut them, but so long as they're mostly green I'll leave them. </p><p></p><p>Moss comes in if we graze down too hard early in the winter, the rain soon flattens what's left onto the ground and if the soil is near bare, then our mild wet winter weather are perfect conditions for moss that will happily grow right through. Key is to leave as much cover for as long as possible going into the winter, we can still take it right down to freshen up for spring, but best left till around March. Now that covers are up all over, the moss is generally on it's way out here, the mossy areas are shrinking annually.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Guleesh, post: 8201477, member: 147187"] Yes it's back to the idea of not worrying about eradicating what you don't want and concentrate on making conditions favourable for what you do. Still, a bit of tweaking can speed up the process. What I think works for here, for rushes and moss is a bit of targeted management on different areas in winter. The two things need almost opposite treatment IMO. Rush and moss seem to respond well to different winter management, rushes generally just need grazing as hard as possible in winter, if they can be hit hard early on they'll regrow and the regrowth is green and can be chewed off a bit more before spring, then the grass left to outcompete. Usually here at lambing, compromises are made somewhere, and if over grazing any areas at this time it can give a real boost to the rushes, If they eventually grow to the point of being big dead clumps then I'll cut them, but so long as they're mostly green I'll leave them. Moss comes in if we graze down too hard early in the winter, the rain soon flattens what's left onto the ground and if the soil is near bare, then our mild wet winter weather are perfect conditions for moss that will happily grow right through. Key is to leave as much cover for as long as possible going into the winter, we can still take it right down to freshen up for spring, but best left till around March. Now that covers are up all over, the moss is generally on it's way out here, the mossy areas are shrinking annually. [/QUOTE]
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