Rushes….. what to do?

[Henery]

Rushes getting worse , I know drainage is the real answer but not possible at the moment.
Weed wiper ? Spot spray? What works best and when ?

thanks

 

[Chris123]

How many small clumps I hit with a mix of pivotal and prevail while I’m bike spraying seems to kill them

 

[coniser]

weed wiper round up works for me

 

[Anymulewilldo]

Weed wipe with glyphosate.

 

[primmiemoo]

Take a crop of rush for bedding every two years.

 

[Derrick Hughes]

Roundup Is the only sure way v

 

[Still Farming]

Take a crop of rush for bedding every two years.

Biomass

 

[Treecreeper]

If conditions allow run the Cambridge roller over them a time or two, it markedly reduces the vitality, I have done this for a couple of years now showing a big difference.

 

[Universe]

Spot spray or wipe works here, but if too established then cut down first and catch em on the regrowth.

 

[john432]

They don't like a hard flail topping this time of the year.A flail rough cut is better than a clean cut with a mower .get some muck , slurry, fertilizer?? On and graze hard.weedwiper with roundup will reduce them to nothing after a few treatments.

 

[Kevtherev]

Lime and drainage is key
Plus flail or chain slasher them off at the ground and spray the re growth with MCPA works well.
Re growth is more tender and less rigid and waxy like mature rushes.

 

[ollie989898]

Top off a low as you dare. Leave well alone until June when you have a nice crop of green and lush growth at least 12 inches high. Then spray with MCPA + 2,4D. At or near maximum rate. Good steady spraying with plenty of water, can use an adjuvant as well if you need. Within weeks they will stop growing, go yellow and die. Any patches that don't succumb knapsack with thrust next year.

Do not try to spray existing growth that is stood there right now.

 

[hally]

Take a crop of rush for bedding every two years.

Will that not spread all the seeds around the rest of the farm?

 

[Anymulewilldo]

Will that not spread all the seeds around the rest of the farm?

That’s always been my take on it…

 

[Wood field]

I used to top them then weed wiper the soft regrowth with roundup
Price of fuel and my hatred of tractor work means I just weed wipe these days and leave to die back

 

[Kevtherev]

Weed wiping with bike and roundup works well but time consuming job.

 

[d-wales]

Rushes getting worse , I know drainage is the real answer but not possible at the moment.
Weed wiper ? Spot spray? What works best and when ?

thanks

Burn them

 

[Ffermer Bach]

Will that not spread all the seeds around the rest of the farm?

I am guessing there is already a lot of seeds in the soil seed bank.

 

[Universe]

Burn them

Doesn't seem to work, as it doesn't with Japanese knotweed Got that t' shirt too...
And drainage of course, but u still have to remove what u have got anyhow. At least thrashing them down you are not allowing them to flower/spread further

 

[Tsa115]

Mcpa or similiar end of may, do not top or nothing, leave them over the winter, by next spring they mostly will be rotted down, do again if they are popping back up, cleared a lot of land last few years like this. Take time to work to the roots, been over some rushes that was thick 4 year old, most of that has gone in one hit now. To rough for a topper. A lot wont agree with our method though