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ragworth and thistles

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  • #62
    Graces7
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    ootbitb wrote: »
    you could try epa.ie

    these days I tend to avoid blanket sprays for the sake of my health . regular topping seems to control everything except docks.

    Thanks/ I have not seen the farmer since. The far end of the lane beyond our gate, has clearly been sprayed but I think not nearer the house; I have the feeling he knew it was not on. I had to be out the day it was proposed.

    Their problem is docks, thistles and nettles, and he has left it rather late as they have seeded now. Topping will not prevent then of course.


  • #63
    Graces7
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    whelan1 wrote: »
    i thought ragworth where bad just spent a while pulling nettles in where we have the hens , i stupidly had a t shirt on instead of a jumper , have nettle stings on my arms and legs:mad:


    OUCH...

    I am allergic to nettles and each sting makes the allergy worse. Wearing a plastic bag over hand and arm woks best as they get even through cloth.


  • #64
    KatyMac
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    Does anybody know the 'tresh-hold' for poisoning of cattle? I always pull it and walk my meadows several times before and after cutting, but I just wondered about the ones that get through. I'd be fooling myself if I thought I was getting every single one!


  • #65
    johngalway
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    whelan1 wrote: »
    i thought ragworth where bad just spent a while pulling nettles in where we have the hens , i stupidly had a t shirt on instead of a jumper , have nettle stings on my arms and legs:mad:

    You won't do that again...


  • #66
    JohnBoy
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    whelan1 wrote: »
    is there a yearly one and a 2 yearly one , if that makes sense
    KatyMac wrote: »
    Does anybody know the 'tresh-hold' for poisoning of cattle? I always pull it and walk my meadows several times before and after cutting, but I just wondered about the ones that get through. I'd be fooling myself if I thought I was getting every single one!


    Some good reading in this: http://www.sac.ac.uk/mainrep/pdfs/tn570ragwortpoisoning.pdf seems to suggest that the effects can be cumulative, also some info there on growth, if cut back they can actually become perrenial! one of the ones I pulled was four and half feet tall, with an inch thick stem at the base so I'm guessing he was perrenial.


    I had always thought it only flowers in the second year but our bog was only drained with shallow open drains this spring for forestry planting and there's lines of the marsh ragwort in full flower on both sides of the drains across the whole lot. We were pleasantly surprised when we reported it to SWS that they said they'd have someone out during the week to pull them.

    whelan1 wrote: »
    i thought ragworth where bad just spent a while pulling nettles in where we have the hens , i stupidly had a t shirt on instead of a jumper , have nettle stings on my arms and legs:mad:

    F*ckin hate nettles.

    You should see me trying to cut a path through them, I'm like a girl dodging them as they fall.


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