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Author Topic: Rushes reduction without Glysophate  (Read 6503 times)

YorkshireLass

  • Joined Mar 2010
  • Just when I thought I'd settled down...!
Re: Rushes reduction without Glysophate
« Reply #15 on: May 20, 2018, 07:57:45 pm »
There are plenty of reasons not to use glyphosate imho :) .
Weed wiping is fine if you can use a weed wiper machine, weed wiping by hand is eye wateringly boring and very time consuming to get a good kill rate.

I think you will get more benefit from the cut rushes in the long term, with respect to building up organic matter.  They have 70% the NPK value of farmyard manure when rotted down.  You gotta feed your soil microbes :) .




Hi again, thanks for not pushing the glysophate agenda. I'm not taking that route. As a horticulture based small holding and without livestock as yet, we are looking at use of grass/rush for fertility. How do you feed your soil the microbes if not from farmyard manure?


I would remove the cuttings (to allow light to get through) and compost them elsewhere - you can then add household waste to compost and even find a gent or two to pee on it and speed things up   :roflanim:

Foobar

  • Joined Mar 2012
  • South Wales
Re: Rushes reduction without Glysophate
« Reply #16 on: May 21, 2018, 11:56:21 am »
Don't plough.  Do the liming and see what happens.

 

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