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Rushes
- Thread starter 6891tmc
- Start date
- Location
- Ceredigion
Send the Nuke in no messing,
5 litres of roundup
Everything else is playing and they will fight back. I'm going to bomb mine with 3 ton of lime and 4 Ton of hen muck as well
5 litres of roundup
Everything else is playing and they will fight back. I'm going to bomb mine with 3 ton of lime and 4 Ton of hen muck as well
- Location
- Ceredigion
They can tolerate PH 7
deleted user 837354
Member
Get a topper and mow them down close to the ground.
Wait for them to regrow. About mid June they will be growing hard and green. Then hit them with a max dose of 2,4D and MCPA.
Wait for them to regrow. About mid June they will be growing hard and green. Then hit them with a max dose of 2,4D and MCPA.
Boohoo
Member
- Location
- Newtownabbey
Not much help at the moment, but I've got a bit of a trial going on. Full rate mcpa on rushes that have never been cut, rushes that were cut a year ago and rushes that were cut this year and have around 6 inches of regrowth. The youngest, softest regrowth will look best short term, but I'm fairly sure the best control will be on the rushes that have never been cut.
- Location
- Welshpool Powys
Lime
Drain
Flail top
Spray with MCPA
Lots of strawy manure
Drain
Flail top
Spray with MCPA
Lots of strawy manure
- Location
- Ceredigion
I've been using MCPa for years and still got rushes .one dose roundup they gone, it kills them dead .M CPA plays with them
I must have super rush here
I really do hate them
deleted user 837354
Member
Are you sure they are rushes rather than sedges??
benferg
Member
- Location
- North Canterbury, NZ
I guess it depends on your paddocks and if you want to take them out entirely.
What about weed wiping them. I know it’s slower but you can use roundup on them without loosing all your pasture.
For best results they always said wipe them in both directions.
What about weed wiping them. I know it’s slower but you can use roundup on them without loosing all your pasture.
For best results they always said wipe them in both directions.
- Location
- Ceredigion
I've got a,weedwipper coming. But rushes are a result of armchair farming . What's the point of painting over cracks .
Lime Drainage Reseed . After roundup that is,
- Location
- Somewhere in time
Green regrowth is waxy and there's not a lot of leaf surface area for the spray.
Best results I got are on really old rushes with glypho.
Also wet land can be alkaline, you have to be careful with lime, rushy land is not always acidic
Best results I got are on really old rushes with glypho.
Also wet land can be alkaline, you have to be careful with lime, rushy land is not always acidic
- Location
- South West
Any one tried spreading Gypsum on rushy ground?
- Location
- Somewhere in time
If you top or mow them often, it spreads the rhizomes underground, and changes the growth pattern to something similar to grass, you get small solitary rush leaves all over the field, very hard to kill those
benferg
Member
- Location
- North Canterbury, NZ
Fair call. If the entire paddock has rushes then it’s a no brainer. If it’s only patches here and there then that’s a different story.
I have seen mob stocking by sheep have an effect on rushes. But it can be just a delaying tactic too...
- Location
- Ceredigion
Why are they there. Poor fertility, wet acid soil
Unless you correct those they will come back
deleted user 837354
Member
A lot of the places I have seen rushes growing I am not sure you would want to plough them- some of the land out on the levels would not take too kindly to it I fancy as it doesnt have any backbone.
- Location
- Somewhere in time
Lime is a myth, Alkaline is as common in wet soil as Acidic,caused by groundwater rising. Fenland is PH neutral and grows all kinds of rushes
deleted user 837354
Member
I would agree that you need to soil sample to get the grass growing properly. I would not be surprised if rushes grew in alkaline dirt though I have never seen any land like that growing them, truly alkaline soil in my part of the world was something of a rarity, I don't think any of the soil samples I ever took turned up at even pH 7 from memory.
multi power
Member
- Location
- pembrokeshire
Bet rushes weren't a problem when you had the dairy cows