Weed management in field

Well, my girl escaped yesterday onto pasture sprayed the day before with Agritox. She colicked last night, spasmodic.
 
Oh no! Is she ok? I'm not sure how respectful mine are going to be of a non electrified tape fence :rolleyes: going to put it up a few days before I spray and see if they try and get through it
 
You can get smaller energisers (they do the trick with my horses) that use normal duracell DD size batteries, it makes it much cheaper if your only doing a line of fencing, I think they are normally around £80.
 
Lime your paddocks - buttercup hate it!

Spray buttercup to kill, dig up the foxglove and plant in your garden - it's pretty.

When the plants die back scatter grass seed over the spaces left.

One years seeds = seven years weeds - you will need to keep on top of the weeds for at least seven years.
 
Very useful thread, we've got a real buttercup issue in one of our fields and I want to get on top of this before it spreads.
On the subject of spraying Ragwort, I've always been scared to spray in case I miss any of the dead plants and they get left behind. Seeing as you have to dig out the dead plant aren't you just as well to dig out the living one and save yourself the spraying of it?
My husband and I have been arguing over this approach, he's convinced spraying is the way to go for Ragwort, frankly I see no point and prefer to dig the stuff out.
 
Rhanna said:
Very useful thread, we've got a real buttercup issue in one of our fields and I want to get on top of this before it spreads.
On the subject of spraying Ragwort, I've always been scared to spray in case I miss any of the dead plants and they get left behind. Seeing as you have to dig out the dead plant aren't you just as well to dig out the living one and save yourself the spraying of it?
My husband and I have been arguing over this approach, he's convinced spraying is the way to go for Ragwort, frankly I see no point and prefer to dig the stuff out.
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You can dig out live ragwort (you MUST wear gloves!), but any bit of root left in the ground can produce more plants. To get around this, you could pour salt into the hole left in the soil. I haven't tried this because I don't have a ragwort problem. The creeping buttercup is growing out of control this year. Several posters have said that creeping buttercup likes acid soil. We are on clay that is quite alkaline, but it is very old sward for which buttercup is a key indicator. We've just sprayed two fields with Kaskara. The second field is even flowering two weeks post spraying (we sprayed when there weren't any flowers). Yesterday, we mowed and collected one particularly floriferous section. It seems this cold, late Spring has been very beneficial to a wide variety of garden plants and weeds. Our 3 wisterias are producing an extraordinary display of blossom, as are our apple trees. Likewise, the weeds are having, please excuse the expression, a field day!
 
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