ragwort

[sallypops]

we have been offered a new piece of land for poppy and tambo, it has these gorgeous old fashioned stalls and a beautiful huge stable, properly looks like the queens horses could of stayed there. we will be given some small piece of land to graze them on, not too big but ideal since well poppy needs to loose the weight and tambo is shetland so we don't want him gaining any extra. however the field has ragwort in it. what is the best way to remove ragwort??
thanks

 

[booboo]

i just use a ragwort fork to pull it up (with gloves) and then burn it.

 

[serena2005]

walk round and pull it out! rope in all your mates!

 

[pagancluf]

Have a ragwort pulling party - pull all out with fork (get the roots out) and then BBQ and vino!!!!!

 

[Gucci_b]

the thing is the rag wart is in seed at the moment and flying about every where, Left to set seed one flowering Ragwort plant produces 100,000 seeds which can travel by wind for up to 50 metres and then germinate up to 20 years later. your best off by spraying it (and it's not cheep) then once dead lift the weed by a rag wart folk, put in a bust bin bag leave for a few weeks if not longer then burn the lot...
http://www.ragtime.uk.com/
http://www.barrier-biotech.com/ragwort1.php

 

[JessPickle]

Get a few people, some rubber gloves and pull it. Our RS has a couple of fields that get it purely because the farmer next door doesnt pull his so the seeds go to fields close by. Took us 2 hours to pull one field on sunday. We filled a whole HUGE trailer, were just lucky to have a quad bike to drive around hehe

 

[Donkeymad]

Pull it now. By spraying it you are giving the seeds time to spread, as weedkiller is not instant. At least by pulling and removing, the seeds have less time to spread therefore less seeds will be spread.

 

[Gucci_b]

but the only thing with that, is the seed is already floating about at the flick of the wind on the ragwart!!, if you pull it about now all that fluffy seed is going to go every where.. It's a night mare "rag wart" this time of year
best of luck.

 

[merlinsquest]

put bags over the seed heads before you pull it up!!

 

[Box_Of_Frogs]

Sallypops take care as its only the 2nd year plant that is so instantly identifiable. If your field is infested, you will probably have the low, flat, harmless-looking rosettes already waiting there. They are as deadly as the tall yellow plant. If it is a starvation-type field, your ponios might eat the rosettes. Poison them, burn them, pull them up - do anything and everything to get rid of them as they are death to horses.