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PK

  • Joined Mar 2015
  • West Suffolk
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Dandelions in profusion
« on: August 26, 2018, 09:35:19 pm »
With some recent rain after prolonged drought my three 1 acre fields are greening up again but one of them is now thick with dandelions. Is there are realistic way of managing this without spraying?

landroverroy

  • Joined Oct 2010
Re: Dandelions in profusion
« Reply #1 on: August 26, 2018, 09:36:28 pm »
Graze them.

Rules are made:
  for the guidance of wise men
  and the obedience of fools.

Dans

  • Joined Jun 2012
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Re: Dandelions in profusion
« Reply #2 on: August 26, 2018, 10:04:17 pm »
Graze them.

I second that. Very few dandilions in my fields where the sheep graze but loads in the  grassy bits the sheep can't get to. They adore them. Even if you're letting the grass recover a bit now, the sheep will get them next year.

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Foobar

  • Joined Mar 2012
  • South Wales
Re: Dandelions in profusion
« Reply #3 on: August 28, 2018, 11:22:40 am »
Graze them, they are full of minerals.  I harvest the seed heads from our garden and sprinkle them on the fields!!  ;D

Dans

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Re: Dandelions in profusion
« Reply #4 on: August 28, 2018, 02:31:55 pm »
Graze them, they are full of minerals.  I harvest the seed heads from our garden and sprinkle them on the fields!!  ;D

I've got a toddler who does that for us!

Dans
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