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Where is all the ragworth gone???

  • 27-05-2011 8:23am
    #1
    locky76
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 867 ✭✭✭


    is it my imagination or has the harsh frost finally gotten rid of the scourge of ragworth?
    i always have to pick them before the first cut (the neighbours has a show of them which blow in) but this year i can't see any of them.
    i haven't seen any of them either during my travels through the country


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  • #2
    darragh_haven
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,433 ✭✭✭darragh_haven


    Just thank god it isnt around. Had the same problem with the neighbours crop of ragworth before. But after he was informed it was illegal not to try and get rid of it, he cleaned up his act.:D


  • #3
    whelan1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 11,786 ✭✭✭✭whelan1


    ragworth is a 2 year crop dont be fooled it will be back next year....


  • #4
    Min
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,550 ✭✭✭Min


    The only cure for ragwort is to spray it, frost will not kill it unfortunately...


  • #5
    F.D
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 718 ✭✭✭F.D


    we still have it in spots its building up nice big green leaves, i will be spraying when ever i get a chance, but it is not a plentyfull i dont know if thats all the hard work digging the bloody stuff the past few years or the frost!!


  • #6
    pakalasa
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,552 ✭✭✭pakalasa


    Don't worry, it ain't gone. I guess a combination of last and this year's weather have kept it quiet. There'll be plenty of seeds to shoot again when conditions are more favourable.
    No shortage of thistles though. Man...if there's one thing I hate it's thistles.:D


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  • #7
    5live
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,438 ✭✭✭5live


    Sheeps are the job for ragworth:D. One of the reasons i still have the hungry buggers. The ewes eat the flowers and the lambs love the leaves. 2 days and 10 acres cleared.

    I am starting to agree with you on the thistles pakalasa. I sprayed a 2 acre sheep and calf paddock for nettles last year and had a great kill:D. This year the place is a show with thistles:mad:. But where were they last year the buggers


  • #8
    Tora Bora
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,258 ✭✭✭Tora Bora


    5live wrote: »
    Sheeps are the job for ragworth:D. One of the reasons i still have the hungry buggers. The ewes eat the flowers and the lambs love the leaves. 2 days and 10 acres cleared.

    I am starting to agree with you on the thistles pakalasa. I sprayed a 2 acre sheep and calf paddock for nettles last year and had a great kill:D. This year the place is a show with thistles:mad:. But where were they last year the buggers

    look on the bright side. Thistles won't grow on bad ground ;)


  • #9
    5live
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,438 ✭✭✭5live


    Tora Bora wrote: »
    look on the bright side. Thistles won't grow on bad ground ;)
    I must plant wheat there so. I should get at least 12 tonnes there with the ammount of thistles there:D


  • #10
    what happen
    Closed Accounts Posts: 194 ✭✭what happen


    locky76 wrote: »
    is it my imagination or has the harsh frost finally gotten rid of the scourge of ragworth?
    i always have to pick them before the first cut (the neighbours has a show of them which blow in) but this year i can't see any of them.
    i haven't seen any of them either during my travels through the country
    they are not gone i dug 4 bags of them this week and still more to dig out.i pulled them last year their is a lot growing on a grass bank and my plan is to dig them all out and the ones true the field.


  • #11
    whelan1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 11,786 ✭✭✭✭whelan1


    what happen wrote: »
    they are not gone i dug 4 bags of them this week and still more to dig out.i pulled them last year their is a lot growing on a grass bank and my plan is to dig them all out and the ones true the field.
    out of interest how do you dipose of them ?


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  • #12
    what happen
    Closed Accounts Posts: 194 ✭✭what happen


    whelan1 wrote: »
    out of interest how do you dipose of them ?
    thats the question i still have the 5 bags sitting in the byre i was digging them today as well:rolleyes:


  • #13
    babybrian
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 215 ✭✭babybrian


    a good fire??


  • #14
    what happen
    Closed Accounts Posts: 194 ✭✭what happen


    babybrian wrote: »
    a good fire??
    would that be legal:D


  • #15
    Kristopherus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,907 ✭✭✭✭Kristopherus


    what happen wrote: »
    thats the question i still have the 5 bags sitting in the byre i was digging them today as well:rolleyes:

    Bonfire Night is only 4 weeks away:D


  • #16
    johngalway
    Closed Accounts Posts: 10,271 ✭✭✭✭johngalway


    pakalasa wrote: »
    Man...if there's one thing I hate it's thistles.:D

    Several 16 litre backpacks of spray later... :D Have sprayed 90% of mine so far, lots of finger crossing though, in between threats of showers work. Done a bit this morning, if you asked me after I finished the first backpack I would have sworn I'd just been caught out by a shower.

    Still ain't wet the ground yet though :D


  • #17
    whelan1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 11,786 ✭✭✭✭whelan1


    what happen wrote: »
    thats the question i still have the 5 bags sitting in the byre i was digging them today as well:rolleyes:
    i throw them in the skip or the wheelie bin... the main thing is that livestock have no access to them as they are highly palatable when dead/dying and there in lies the problem!:)


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