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Smallholding => Land Management => Topic started by: Womble on April 29, 2022, 07:44:34 am

Title: Ground elder in pasture
Post by: Womble on April 29, 2022, 07:44:34 am

Hi folks,


We have ground elder around our garden ground, and have resigned ourselves to it being permanent.


However, it's getting pretty close to the boundary of the fields, and this morning I spotted a small patch of it right at the bottom of the far field that I guess must have travelled there on the bottom of a welly or something.


Can anybody tell me how much of an issue this will be in sheep pasture? Will they just munch it for the extra vitamins, or do I need to take steps to stop it from spreading into the fields?

Thanks!

Title: Re: Ground elder in pasture
Post by: cans on April 29, 2022, 02:30:48 pm

I know it as Bishop Weed.
Our goats loved it.
As to it spreading into the field I will pass on that one as ours was under a beech hedge/north side of a wall and picked for the goats.