Anyone help me identify these weeds

mitsubishi1

Hi lads,
Could anyone help me identify these weeds I have in an empty paddock at the moment.

Would I be right in thinking one of the pictures is clover.

Cheers for your help.

Oldtree

1. white clover
2. tall ones nettles
3. creeping thistle
4. if yellow flower creeping buttercup i think
5. ragwort i think

this may help you: Illustrated Guide to Tillage Weeds

http://www.teagasc.ie/publications/view_publication.aspx?PublicationID=55

Nekarsulm

Picture 1 is white clover. Not a weed.
2 nettles ( you live in Ireland and don't know what a nettle is?)
3 Thistle
4 Both ragworth (green bushy thing) and creeping buttercup
5 Probably ragworth at rosette stage. Ragworth only flowers every second year. First year you get this thing pictured and second year throws up a stalk up to 2 foot high with a mass of yellow folwers on it.

Farmer Pudsey

As the lads above say these are the weeds. I disagree with Nekarsulm the clover you have is a weed it is very old clover and is adding nothing to the sward. I use a general spray on it such as Micram, if there is a lot of ragworth be aware that it will take time to die and you need to keep stock out. I would consider topping it after grazing and applyibg 20 units og N to get it gropwing actively, it is getting too dry to spray at present but if growing actively and weeds not flowering after weather changes I would spray.

With the selection of weeds present you may have to spray twice as weeds will flower at different stages and this stops them getting spray into roots. MCPA will more than likly give you a good clean as well and again you will need to spray twice. At 20-30 euro/acre to spray it it will increase grass o/p buy 60-100%

greysides

As a pedantic aside:

Ragwort is the correct spelling of 'Ragworth'.... there are a lot of plants which end with -wort.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_wort_plants

The Cuban

Not a rush in sight! Must be great land

mitsubishi1

Yep land is very good. Great drainage. Just need to sort all the weeds.

Farmer Pudsey

mitsubishi1 wrote: »

Yep land is very good. Great drainage. Just need to sort all the weeds.

Not quite by the look of it land is low in ph, buttercup a sure sign. I advise that over the winter you get the lad soil sampled. I would not be surprised if it is short of P&K as well. Usuall if you see old pasture full of weeds but not of docks then land is low in P&K as well

Farmer

The Cuban wrote: »

Not a rush in sight! Must be great land

Ah I wouldn't heed the rushes.

Rhododendron briars and black sallies, now they're proper weeds😊

EamonKilkenny

Farmer Pudsey wrote: »

Not quite by the look of it land is low in ph, buttercup a sure sign. I advise that over the winter you get the lad soil sampled. I would not be surprised if it is short of P&K as well. Usuall if you see old pasture full of weeds but not of docks then land is low in P&K as well

Or was it a field that had been scalded by horses? You often see them creeping in to paddocks that were constantly grazed to the butt.