Thistles in grass

[milkloss]

The law is still in place to prosecute landowners who allow ragwort to grow.

Any recent examples of a successful prosecution?

 

[serf]

The law is still in place to prosecute landowners who allow ragwort to grow.

The council around here must be getting worried then .....

 

[egbert]

Am I recalling right that chain harrowing will sicken em?
(I've very similar problems in a fields of clover)

 

[Lincsman]

Any recent examples of a successful prosecution?

No, unfortunately.

 

[Roy_H]

Am I recalling right that chain harrowing will sicken em?
(I've very similar problems in a fields of clover)

It might bruise them a bit so herbicides are more effective but otherwise no. We used chain harrows a lot in grass fields but we still got thistles!

 

[Red Fred]

Our agronomist used to say that most creeping thistle seed was sterile and spreading out from the roots was almost always the origin of new patches.. I always wondered if that was really true.
I used to weed wipe ours on the water meadows where the disturbed soil of the ridge-and-furrow type of ground really suited them. I always let them grow up, then wipe them with roundup as I don't think any selective sprays were approved for wiping and I didn't want to get my wrists slapped by NE, I would say you could get 80% kill with total dock control as a bonus, but you could never completely eradicate the thistles and it just became a regular job each year.

 

[neilo]

Our agronomist used to say that most creeping thistle seed was sterile and spreading out from the roots was almost always the origin of new patches.. I always wondered if that was really true.
I used to weed wipe ours on the water meadows where the disturbed soil of the ridge-and-furrow type of ground really suited them. I always let them grow up, then wipe them with roundup as I don't think any selective sprays were approved for wiping and I didn't want to get my wrists slapped by NE, I would say you could get 80% kill with total dock control as a bonus, but you could never completely eradicate the thistles and it just became a regular job each year.

I have heard of Thistlex or Pastor being quite effective in a wiper, but I doubt it would translocate round the thistle rhizomes as well as glyphosate.

 

[sticky]

I’ve got 30 acres of long term rented pp and I’ve been spot spraying the scotch thistles for the past 2 seasons and then topped but I’ve lost and I can’t believe the amount that are there this year. I have waved the white flag and there’s forefront t sat at the spray contractors waiting for the correct time, god knows what it’s all going to cost but I can’t leave it any longer.

 

[Gulli]

 

[Dancingbrave]

I’ve got 30 acres of long term rented pp and I’ve been spot spraying the scotch thistles for the past 2 seasons and then topped but I’ve lost and I can’t believe the amount that are there this year. I have waved the white flag and there’s forefront t sat at the spray contractors waiting for the correct time, god knows what it’s all going to cost but I can’t leave it any longer.

Twice what Thistlex would cost