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Encroaching sceachs

fits · 2015-03-16 07:53:25

This may be a stupid question, but what do you do with sceach bushes encroaching into the field? If you cut them at the bottom will they coppice and get worse?

16-03-2015 7:53am

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This may be a stupid question, but what do you do with sceach bushes encroaching into the field?

If you cut them at the bottom will they coppice and get worse?

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#2 16-03-2015 9:08am

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What's a sceach?

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#3 16-03-2015 9:14am

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I'm guessing blackthorn ?

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#4 16-03-2015 9:20am

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Hawthorn, cut, paint stump with brushwood killer,spray any regrowth with same chemical.

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#5 16-03-2015 9:22am

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Whitethorn not blackthorn. "Draigheann" is blackthorn. I know that much, as little Gaeilge as I do know.

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#6 16-03-2015 9:31am

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Whitethorn not likely to spread out from a hedge. Blackthorn is a disaster for it. As posted above, scrub killer.

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#7 16-03-2015 12:20pm

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Its blackthorn I think. We always referred to them as sceachs. I didn't know that about treating the stumps. A job for the long evenings!

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#8 16-03-2015 12:31pm

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Spray them with Grazon 90, that should get rid of them

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#9 16-03-2015 12:47pm

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tabby aspreme wrote: »

Spray them with Grazon 90, that should get rid of them

Would prefer to minimise the chemical use. Painting the stumps sounds better for us.

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