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    #122
    gozunda
    Registered Users Posts: 18,996 ✭✭✭✭gozunda


    greysides wrote: »
    This PDF suggests that you 'Do not compost buds or flowers.'

    Another PDF says this: Composting in the open is not recommended. If the composting process does not kill the seeds, there will be a risk of spread of ragwort. Composting should therefore not be used for disposal of ragwort, unless the temperatures reached are sufficient to destroy viable seed.

    Pull and Compost preferably before seed is set. Compost seperatly and not in dungheap etc. cover with heavy gauge black plastic in old pit and let to rot completely. Works for me.


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    #123
    Greengrass1
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    http://www.agriland.ie/news/uk-wildlife-group-asks-people-think-pull-ragwort/
    What a load of ****e


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    #124
    gozunda
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    Greengrass1 wrote: »
    http://www.agriland.ie/news/uk-wildlife-group-asks-people-think-pull-ragwort/
    What a load of ****e

    Some of the more extreme views on countryside management are scary tbh - I have seen various propositions including freeing all farm animals and letting them live out their lives running free etc etc.
    I wonder how that fits with the free all Ragworth campaign :rolleyes:


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    #125
    Qualitymark
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    Really odd that you apparently can't buy cinnibar moth eggs and hatch them out and go 'OK boys, sic 'em'.


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    #126
    smokey-fitz
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    Qualitymark wrote: »
    Really odd that you apparently can't buy cinnibar moth eggs and hatch them out and go 'OK boys, sic 'em'.

    How much would you pay for them? :P


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    Capercaille
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    Qualitymark wrote: »
    Really odd that you apparently can't buy cinnibar moth eggs and hatch them out and go 'OK boys, sic 'em'.
    I don't pull ragworth out. My farm is in a coastal location. I have a species rich meadow and ragworth growes less vigourously as a result. At this time of year the Ragworth would be loaded with cinnabar moth caterpillars. The moths/caterpillars survive well in an extensive management system. They will be mostly absent from intensive monoculture pastures (which sadly is alot of Irish agricultural grassland).


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    #128
    Qualitymark
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    smokey-fitz wrote: »
    How much would you pay for them? :P

    Comparable with ladybird eggs for greenfly? http://www.amazon.co.uk/Ladybird-larvae-control-conifers-hedges/dp/B00BURFNE0/ref=sr_1_1?s=outdoors&ie=UTF8&qid=1406548852&sr=1-1&keywords=ladybird+larvae


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    #129
    sandydan
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    Greengrass1 wrote: »
    http://www.agriland.ie/news/uk-wildlife-group-asks-people-think-pull-ragwort/
    What a load of ****e
    when reading the ragworth article did you notice the IFA got a wallop for not supporting the nomadic Beef solution proposed by NI Minister for Agriculture in one article


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    whelan2
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    was finished milking early so went out to calving paddock and cleared it of ragworth, nothing like looking back and seeing the field cleared....bit of rain makes them easier to pull. Can top it tomorrow


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    Greengrass1
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    whelan2 wrote: »
    was finished milking early so went out to calving paddock and cleared it of ragworth, nothing like looking back and seeing the field cleared....bit of rain makes them easier to pull. Can top it tomorrow

    How come ye have so much ragwort? Weren't you after it last yr as well?


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    #132
    whelan2
    Registered Users Posts: 29,079 ✭✭✭✭whelan2


    Greengrass1 wrote: »
    How come ye have so much ragwort? Weren't you after it last yr as well?
    i dont have as much as other years, i am on a mission to rid the place of it


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    #133
    raher1
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    It's easily pulled up, the roots are shallow. Throw it into a bag and burn when withered. No need for chemicals


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    #134
    KatyMac
    Registered Users Posts: 1,209 ✭✭✭KatyMac


    whelan2 wrote: »
    i dont have as much as other years, i am on a mission to rid the place of it
    I think I'm getting on top of my problem as well without resorting to chemicals. The trick now is to keep the beggars at bay!!


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    #135
    sandydan
    Registered Users Posts: 1,471 ✭✭✭sandydan


    raher1 wrote: »
    It's easily pulled up, the roots are shallow. Throw it into a bag and burn when withered. No need for chemicals

    its hard to ensure you burn all seeds. i prefer Gozunda's suggestion of throwing into heap and covering with plastic on concrete until rotten just throw it in as you pull it , that way its rotting as you clear with no risk of seed accidentally being spread around or worse still eaten by wandering animal,withered ragworth is enticing to them for some reason and lethal.


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    #136
    I said
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    After last nights rain its handy pulling it from the roots.Place it in old fert bags and let it rot away.


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    whelan2
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    I said wrote: »
    After last nights rain its handy pulling it from the roots.Place it in old fert bags and let it rot away.
    they will be even easier after all the rain tomorrow


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