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Cutting rushes - Timing

  • 14-11-2010 12:37pm
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    Tora Bora
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    Lads I have 2 acres which hadnt got too much care with a few years. Not overly wet, but nevertheless was overrun with rushes which hadnt been cut for years.
    I cut them last July with the rotary mower. I had a fair old job, as the bottoms of them were fierce thick and woody. Anyway cut them, and left them to rot away, which thy did quite well.
    Now I have a nice crop of lighter greener ones. I'm planning on going back with the rotary mower, if (when) we get a bit of hard December frost, to cut as bare as I possibly can to the ground.
    Then when I get good green regrowth back, might hit them with the weed licker in early May.
    Is my plan sound or is cutting in December a waste of time and diesel?

    T


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  • #2
    Ashill5
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    Hi Tora Bora.
    Don't waste your time cutting them. If you have a weedlicker and if you get a couple of dry days . Weedlick them with Round up or Gallop 360, with a mix about 5:1 and go both ways. I licked some one day in Janurary this year during the frosty weather. It took till nearly Paddy's day till they started to turn brown.I got a kill as good as you would get in summer time. These rushes i licked hadn't been touched in about 8 years. I hope to lick the field again in the next week or 2 as there are a few weanlings still grazing it.:)


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