Weeds

[parsnips]

Can anyone identify the plant in attached photo?
It's growing well and the sheep won't touch it.
Is there anyway of slowing it, without use of sprays or completely reseeding?

Thanks

 

[milkloss]

Nettle........


I know, you meant the other plants but I couldn’t resist. At least it’s a bump to the top!

 

[som farmer]

4 leaf, ragged edge clover

 

[parsnips]

 

[parsnips]

Here's a closer photo.

 

[yellowbelly]

Looks like Speedwell to me.....

......you got any blue flowers?

 

[farmerm]

I would say you have there
creeping thistle...
creeping speedwell
common nettle
and a bit of unidentified grass

 

[deleted user 837354]

Hard to tell because there is no sense of scale. Speedwells are that shape and often glossy or waxy looking, with little blue flowers and they grow close to the ground. Leaf is the right shape.

You can try harrowing it up, otherwise it's sprays.

 

[Kiwi Pete]

Mob up the sheep tight on it, they won't eat it, but they will crush the shite out of it.

That'll slow it up enough to get the grass away

 

[Yale]

Mob up the sheep tight on it, they won't eat it, but they will crush the shite out of it.

That'll slow it up enough to get the grass away

I’d say maybe if not too much bulk run the mower over it however don’t if the cut stuff I’d going to smother.

It’s surprising how quickly it will disappear and feed the worms.

 

[Kiwi Pete]

I’d say maybe if not too much bulk run the mower over it however don’t if the cut stuff I’d going to smother.

It’s surprising how quickly it will disappear and feed the worms.

I assume it is Speedwell?
Trouble with a lot of chickweed or speedwell (to name a couple) is that you really can't get under them enough with a mower IME, in a reseed you end up knocking the grass for 6 and then you end up with the same thing in 4 weeks time... worth a shot all the same, realise not everyone is set up for mobbing with fences but good practice for sheepdogs - often the couple of hours you'd spend in the tractor is better spend dog-trailling!

 

[michael N123]

I would say you have there
creeping thistle...
creeping speedwell
common nettle
and a bit of unidentified grass

Think it needs plowed in

 

[parsnips]

Thanks for all advice, it does have blue flowers so very possibly speedwell. Only got 18 of them and a Jack Russel so mobbing might not happen, will give harrowing a go. But after not touching it all year, they've started eating it along with all the nettles.