Author Topic: Buttercups  (Read 9214 times)

plumseverywhere

  • Joined Apr 2013
  • Worcestershire
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Re: Buttercups
« Reply #15 on: June 14, 2013, 01:28:57 pm »
There is here too - I noticed just prior to our holiday that our sheep field and the gravel ramp leading to it were "all yellow"  (cue...song of same name  ;)  )

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Daisys Mum

  • Joined May 2009
  • Scottish Borders
Re: Buttercups
« Reply #16 on: June 15, 2013, 08:05:15 am »
We have a lot here too this year and I did think about spreading lime but we also have a lot of clover and I am sure that I read somewhere that liming kills clover  :-\
Anne

ballingall

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  • Joined Sep 2008
  • Avonbridge, Falkirk
Re: Buttercups
« Reply #17 on: June 15, 2013, 01:35:16 pm »
Spraying buttercups to kill them does kill clover too, but not grass. My sisters field is really bad with buttercups. We have them, but not too bad and we lime every year to keep them back.


Beth

Anke

  • Joined Dec 2009
  • St Boswells, Scottish Borders
Re: Buttercups
« Reply #18 on: June 17, 2013, 10:22:16 am »
We have a lot here too this year and I did think about spreading lime but we also have a lot of clover and I am sure that I read somewhere that liming kills clover  :-\

My goats won't eat the white clover!

Daisys Mum

  • Joined May 2009
  • Scottish Borders
Re: Buttercups
« Reply #19 on: June 17, 2013, 10:52:01 am »
We have a lot here too this year and I did think about spreading lime but we also have a lot of clover and I am sure that I read somewhere that liming kills clover  :-\

My goats won't eat the white clover!


Don't know if mine eat it but the sheep do  :sheep:
Anne

shygirl

  • Joined May 2013
Re: Buttercups
« Reply #20 on: June 17, 2013, 11:13:52 am »


Don't know if mine eat it but the sheep do  :sheep:
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yes, iv realised that i seem to have alot more buttercups as i sold my sheep last year...duh. you dont realise what they do til they are gone.

HelenVF

  • Joined Apr 2012
Re: Buttercups
« Reply #21 on: June 17, 2013, 01:18:40 pm »
I had a good luck at my paddock and we have a lot of clover as well. 

Helen

 

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