Mares tail

[Cowpoke82]

Best spray to control mares tail in pasture ??

 

[Bald Rick]

Best spray to control mares tail in pasture ??

Symptomatic of acid soils. Lime will sort it over time.

Also an indicator of compacted, poorly aerated land so you could tackle that too.

2-4D will kill it (but I’m not an agronomist)

 

[Cowpoke82]

Symptomatic of acid soils. Lime will sort it over time.

Also an indicator of compacted, poorly aerated land so you could tackle that too.

2-4D will kill it (but I’m not an agronomist)

Used pastor last year killed what was visible but it’s come back thicker this year , I had heard lime sorts it

 

[alomy75]

MCPA will sizzle it but it will come back in that patch next crop

 

[Derrick Hughes]

I think Kurtail Evo is the only thing that will kill it but kills the grass as well

 

[Cowpoke82]

I think Kurtail Evo is the only thing that will kill it but kills the grass as well

Killing the grass off isn’t an option although tempting

 

[Kevtherev]

Top it and lime it

 

[Derrick Hughes]

Killing the grass off isn’t an option although tempting

Weed Wiper ?

 

[Cowpoke82]

Weed Wiper ?

Yes a possibility

 

[ringi]

A brush type weed wiper may help break the wax coating on the mares tail. Shame not permitted to mix something like 2,4-D with the glyphosate.

If someone tried to design a weed to make it hard to get weedkiller into it, they may find it hard to do better then mares tail!

 

[neilo]

Weed Wiper ?

The only thing you can legally use in a weedwiper is glyphosate. One of the least susceptible weeds to glyphosate is Mares Tail.

As to lime killing it, you might be able to desiccate it with a shovel full, but it grows well enough in pH6.5 arable fields here, especially after a glyphosate spray.

 

[neilo]

A brush type weed wiper may help break the wax coating on the mares tail. Shame not permitted to mix something like 2,4-D with the glyphosate.

If someone tried to design a weed to make it hard to get weedkiller into it, they may find it hard to do better then mares tail!

2-4D and glyphosate is available as Kyleo. No idea if it kills mares tail though.

 

[ringi]

2-4D and glyphosate is available as Kyleo. No idea if it kills mares tail though.

Its claimed to work, and I think it's the Roundup ProVanage data sheet that says marea tail should be bruise with a soft brush before using Roundup ProVanage.

 

[Cowpoke82]

Sounds as if I’ve a battle on my hands

 

[Kidds]

I don't think there are any chemicals still available that will do any good on marestail. Even the ones that used to be available weren't brilliant.

 

[Av Gorritt]

I think that you might just have a long drawn out battle on your hands . Mares tail is one of the best and longest surviving plant in nature . (I read ) It's direct precursor was the mighty set of trees making up the ancient forests that were covered and mightily compressed to make the present day coal seams . So, they certainly are survivors , and will need something drastic to kill them .

 

[Derrick Hughes]

Its claimed to work, and I think it's the Roundup ProVanage data sheet that says marea tail should be bruise with a soft brush before using Roundup ProVanage.

This is same as Kyleo and says it works

 

[spin cycle]

gotta sort the compaction

 

[ladycrofter]

gluphosinate works, used to get it from a company called Progreen but don't know if it/their still on the go.

 

[ringi]

Be very careful assuming that weedkillers with the same active chemicals will behave the same with mares tail as the adjuvants that some have can make a big difference to getting the weedkiller past the layer of "wax" and into the mares tail. I expect the growth stage is also important.

It is also often claimed that lightly brushing the mares tail before spraying or brushing on the weedkiller results in much better kill rates, but even on a pavement it takes many visits to get 100% kill.