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 Topic: RoundUp/glyphosate Question |
Bluedog
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 Forum: Land Management Posted: Sat Sep 26, 09 11:18 am Subject: RoundUp/glyphosate Question |
| Weakening the plant and then hitting it when it is at it's most vulnerable is a lower-input method of using glyphosate (if you find you have to use it at all), more in line with the downsizerish princ ... |
| Topic: RoundUp/glyphosate Question |
Bluedog
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Forum: Land Management Posted: Sat Sep 26, 09 10:05 am Subject: RoundUp/glyphosate Question |
Sorry, I appear to have stumbled into the paralell anti-downsizer forum by mistake. Ignore me.
Eh? |
| Topic: RoundUp/glyphosate Question |
Bluedog
Replies: 42
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Forum: Land Management Posted: Fri Sep 25, 09 7:52 pm Subject: RoundUp/glyphosate Question |
| Yeah but then you are waiting for it to re-grow... If you just add some fairy liquid and feed everything a week before you spray it will do the job of strimming and you can do it weeks before waiting ... |
| Topic: Fencing ideas required |
Bluedog
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Forum: Land Management Posted: Fri Sep 25, 09 7:50 pm Subject: Fencing ideas required |
Legally I think you need to fence it off anyway,
I would think not. Its someones house / garden / grounds not a public access site.
I would check your local regulations before being so sure ... |
| Topic: Fencing ideas required |
Bluedog
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Forum: Land Management Posted: Fri Sep 25, 09 3:36 pm Subject: Fencing ideas required |
Legally I think you need to fence it off anyway, but you will have to check with your local authority....
My advice... chestnut palisade.... |
| Topic: RoundUp/glyphosate Question |
Bluedog
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Forum: Land Management Posted: Fri Sep 25, 09 3:34 pm Subject: RoundUp/glyphosate Question |
We've a small amount of very overgrown river-bank opposite our house, which I would really like to get under control. It's full of ground elder, brambles, and the like.
Is gypsophylate a no-no close ... |
| Topic: RoundUp/glyphosate Question |
Bluedog
Replies: 42
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Forum: Land Management Posted: Fri Sep 25, 09 3:32 pm Subject: RoundUp/glyphosate Question |
I was told if the vegetation is completely overgrown, you should brushcut / strim the stuff down first, then leave it a bit, then apply the glyphos. Not sure about time of year to do that though.
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| Topic: RoundUp/glyphosate Question |
Bluedog
Replies: 42
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Forum: Land Management Posted: Wed Sep 23, 09 6:49 pm Subject: RoundUp/glyphosate Question |
| As a tip, fertilise about a week before you apply round up and when you do add it put a couple of drops of fairy liquid in the can. Glyphosate works its best when the plant is in full growth surge and ... |
| Topic: Finally pulled out all the ragwort. |
Bluedog
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Forum: Land Management Posted: Sun Aug 30, 09 12:05 pm Subject: Finally pulled out all the ragwort. |
| To add, the BEST thing to spray on Ragwort, in fact almost the ONLY thing that kills it is Citronella, sold as Barrier H and VERY concentrated but you can almost watch it kill the crowns, of course li ... |
| Topic: Finally pulled out all the ragwort. |
Bluedog
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Forum: Land Management Posted: Sun Aug 30, 09 12:03 pm Subject: Finally pulled out all the ragwort. |
| Ragwort was once known as Oxford Ragwort because it was first spotted growing in the railway station there. It hails originally from Sicily, so it begs the question what was the Cinnabar thingy feedin ... |
| Topic: Fencing quotes |
Bluedog
Replies: 15
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Forum: Land Management Posted: Tue Jul 21, 09 3:13 pm Subject: Fencing quotes |
That's brilliant Bluedog. Lots of numbers to keep my accountant's brain happy!
What are the costs for adding a gate?
Depending on where you are McVeigh Parker sell a gate kit, thats a 12ft gat ... |
| Topic: Fencing quotes |
Bluedog
Replies: 15
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Forum: Land Management Posted: Tue Jul 21, 09 10:00 am Subject: Fencing quotes |
As a contractor I charge £1.50 a meter for stock netting and .45p a meter per strand of barbed wire, and £1 a meter to fit.
Stock netting is about £80-90 for a 100 mtr roll (I always use high tens ... |
| Topic: Another devon newbie |
Bluedog
Replies: 19
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Forum: Welcome Posted: Fri Apr 10, 09 2:19 pm Subject: Another devon newbie |
Blimey, Bluedog, I didnt realise you had made it down at last!! Hows it going?
Hi to carl and Chicken too.
Has anyone done a head count now on the Devon/Welsh? Reckon we might soon be a majority ... |
| Topic: Another devon newbie |
Bluedog
Replies: 19
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Forum: Welcome Posted: Thu Apr 09, 09 11:08 pm Subject: Another devon newbie |
| Welcome................ I'm in Devon (I will never tire of saying that!) |
| Topic: Rabbit fence |
Bluedog
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Forum: Land Management Posted: Tue Mar 24, 09 9:54 am Subject: Rabbit fence |
A rabbit can dig a meter deep without any trouble so putting the netting straight in the ground is pointless, it needs a lip, or as already describes an "L"
The whole point behind rabbit netting is ... |
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