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Name this weed ?

  • 28-08-2015 3:55pm
    #1
    fanadman1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 594 ✭✭✭


    Was up in a friends place and he was asking me about this. The field os just after being grazed with sheep and they ate some of it. To us it looks like a wile rubbarb but we don't know. So if somebody here would be able to tell us and a spray to sort it i will be very gratefull. And it will be a win for boards cause he was laughin when i told him i would post it haha
    Photo wont upload says its 2 big any tips ?


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  • #2
    mad turnip
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 710 ✭✭✭mad turnip


    upload the photo to an image sharing site like www.imgur.com and post the link back here.


  • #3
    MickeyShtyles
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,371 ✭✭✭MickeyShtyles


    fanadman1 wrote: »
    Was up in a friends place and he was asking me about this. The field os just after being grazed with sheep and they ate some of it. To us it looks like a wile rubbarb but we don't know. So if somebody here would be able to tell us and a spray to sort it i will be very gratefull. And it will be a win for boards cause he was laughin when i told him i would post it haha
    Photo wont upload says its 2 big any tips ?

    I know what yer talking about but I can't get a name for it. Tis common enough grown in wettish areas or close to water sources.


  • #4
    fanadman1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 594 ✭✭✭fanadman1


    http://imgur.com/5I8MIZL thats the photo.

    5I8MIZLl.jpg


  • #5
    Genghis Cant
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    Looks like Butterbur to me.


  • #6
    fanadman1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 594 ✭✭✭fanadman1


    Genghis Cant wrote: »
    Looks like Butterbur to me.

    Any idea what will kill them


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  • #7
    Genghis Cant
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,980 ✭✭✭Genghis Cant


    fanadman1 wrote: »
    Any idea what will kill them

    Roundup maybe, but I dunno.


  • #8
    MickeyShtyles
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,371 ✭✭✭MickeyShtyles


    Genghis Cant wrote: »
    Roundup maybe, but I dunno.

    I'd say bruise it first and then a high dose of roundup or banspray.


  • #9
    fanadman1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 594 ✭✭✭fanadman1


    The sheep have been eating at it. We thought this would be the time


  • #10
    DMAXMAN
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 328 ✭✭DMAXMAN


    looks like coltsfoot to me. hard to kill especially when they get that big. will need repeated doses of roundup


  • #11
    Farmer Pudsey
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    I say a brushwood killer like Grazon 90, scrub killer or terbel.


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  • #12
    Jimlh86
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    Farmer Pudsey wrote: »
    I say a brushwood killer like Grazon 90, scrub killer or terbel.

    Done a bit if spraying with grazon pro this year, I met a bit of that stuff it only seemed to bloody anger it!!


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