What do you do with your ragwort?

[B_2_B]

Once you've removed it, how do you dispose of it?

ETA - other than the muckheap (goats/pigs etc walk over our muck heap every day and horses have access to one side of it too)

 

[You Wont Forget Me]

We just throw it in the muck heap then the YO deals with it from there, not sure how exactly tho

 

[The Xmas Furry]

I dont throw it in the muck heap, as that goes off for muck spreading when the local farmer collects it.

I collect it in a large feed sack (or shavings bag) which I keep nr the muckheap, then when the opportunity arises I have a bonfire.

Burning is best tho you could take it to the local dump?

 

[Rudey]

Our farmer burns ours xx

 

[smellsofhorse]

Burn it.
Only way to get rid of it without spreading it

 

[VioletStripe]

At my last stables which I volunteered at I was told they burned it xx

 

[B_2_B]

Thanks!

 

[JAGER BOMB :)]

Once you've removed it, how do you dispose of it?

ETA - other than the muckheap (goats/pigs etc walk over our muck heap every day and horses have access to one side of it too)

WE PUT OURS IN A BIG TUB AND LET IT DRY OUT THEN WE BURN IT XXX

 

[ISHmad]

We burn it or put it in our green bin for the council to collect.

 

[Boxers]

We burn it or put it in our green bin for the council to collect.

Do you mean the bin for garden waste?

You shouldn't put it in there as the contents of that bin goes away to be broken down into compost - and so therefore the ragwort would be getting spread - which is illegal.

best to burn it.

And don't put it on the muck heap either as that gets spread on the land and so spreads the ragwort.

 

[ragwortsense]

You shouldn't put it in there as the contents of that bin goes away to be broken down into compost - and so therefore the ragwort would be getting spread - which is illegal.

Ragwort can be composted, as long as it is done properly. I don't understand why horseowners don't know this when DEFRA makes plenty of information available. Go to defra.gov.uk and download the leaflet 'Guidance on the disposal options for common ragwort'.

It's the same site where you got your copy of the Code of Practice.

You do have a copy of the Code of Practice don't you?

 

[missieh]

Just burn it....life's too short!

 

[Cuffey]

Link to Guidance mentioned above--dealing with it probably determined by quantity
Do be careful burning it--I remember someone ending up in hospital after breathing toxic fumes from doing that
Please do not put into green bin you will end up spreading it elsewhere

http://www.defra.gov.uk/publications/files/pb11050-ragwort-dispose-110315.pdf

 

[Worried1]

Burn it, before it has dried as it can still seed while drying.

 

[Ibblebibble]

rosettes get killed with weedol, big un's get pulled and burned, hubby is a gardener/tree chopper so we always have a pile of garden type stuff to burn.