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docks and chick weed- spray

  • 13-03-2012 7:10pm
    #1
    GERMAN ROCKS
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 1,796 ✭✭✭


    grazing off the end of the silage ground this week and will be going out with 3000 gallons of slurry next week and then two weeks later two bags of urea. now these fields were reseeded within the last five years. there are a few docks but quiet a bit of chick weed in places. whats the best spray for this and when should i apply. no clover. is optica only for docks or does it do chick weed aswell? should i spray first or fertilize first?


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  • #2
    Wild Bill
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 3,129 ✭✭✭Wild Bill


    Well, this isn't a dock or a chickweed but I see no better place to ask.....what is this?

    IMG_0621-1.jpg


  • #3
    Min
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,550 ✭✭✭Min


    Not sure, maybe undersown spray.

    Wild Bill, it looks like a wild sorrell. http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/915938


  • #4
    Tora Bora
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,258 ✭✭✭Tora Bora


    GERMAN ROCKS wrote: »
    grazing off the end of the silage ground this week and will be going out with 3000 gallons of slurry next week and then two weeks later two bags of urea. now these fields were reseeded within the last five years. there are a few docks but quiet a bit of chick weed in places. whats the best spray for this and when should i apply. no clover. is optica only for docks or does it do chick weed aswell? should i spray first or fertilize first?

    I thought chick weed was a one season crop, and would not survive the winter. I reseeded a two acre field last Sept. Never got to graze it due to incessant rain since then. Had several large patches of chickweed.
    I went out with two bags of urea three weeks ago, by hand:pac:
    Field looking great now, and chickweed patches wiped out, with vigorous growing grass.


  • #5
    PatQfarmer
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 597 ✭✭✭PatQfarmer


    Tora Bora wrote: »
    I went out with two bags of urea three weeks ago, by hand:pac:
    Field looking great now, and chickweed patches wiped out, with vigorous growing grass.

    Jeez lads, what dedication! We'll have to bring up those aerial fertiliser spreaders and their planes from NZ if your land doesn't dry out:D


  • #6
    Wild Bill
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 3,129 ✭✭✭Wild Bill


    Min wrote: »

    Wild Bill, it looks like a wild sorrell. http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/915938

    Yep - that looks right. Another reply said it was "Lords'n'Ladies" - it makes a bit of a difference; wild sorrell is
    A common wild plant that is good to eat in salads, soups and omelettes, or just to nibble on your way.

    whereas of Lords and Ladies I read
    The most important thing to know about this plant is that all parts are extremely poisonous.

    :confused:


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