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Smallholding => Techniques and skills => Topic started by: OhLaLa on May 16, 2011, 09:34:18 am

Title: Getting rid of Bog Grass - which selective herbicide?
Post by: OhLaLa on May 16, 2011, 09:34:18 am

Anyone know of a good selective herbicide to get rid of Bog Grass (the tall hard spiky grass that grows in wetter fields)?

Don't want to kill the grass - and improving drainage not an option.

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Title: Re: Getting rid of Bog Grass - which selective herbicide?
Post by: Coley on May 16, 2011, 06:58:00 pm

Best I could manage was to cut it short, then as it started to come back spray it with weed killer (I used pastor but cant get it anymore) did the trick but the bugger will come back as soon as you turn your back.

Title: Re: Getting rid of Bog Grass - which selective herbicide?
Post by: hughesy on May 16, 2011, 09:05:28 pm

Surest way is to get the land dried out somehow.

Title: Re: Getting rid of Bog Grass - which selective herbicide?
Post by: ballingall on June 13, 2011, 10:55:42 pm

Get some goats. Seriously. We used to have Boggrass (marshgrass) in our field when we moved here. None left anymore. Every field roundabout us has it..... The goats have eaten it all out. Seems to be good for them two - it has helped bring back two very sick goats to health.


Beth

Title: Re: Getting rid of Bog Grass - which selective herbicide?
Post by: OhLaLa on June 14, 2011, 07:04:01 am

Thanks but unfortunately as goats are escape artistes, they are not for me - they would spend more time out of the field and none of it in there doing the job.