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Re: Weed
I am hardly an expert, but my own experiences with Ground Ivy, and your
observation that it grows most heavily where there is the most sheep
droppings emboldens me. Glechoma tends to prosper where soil is disturbed
or compacted. Otherwise, grass will usually push it out. I wonder if you
are over grazing, or letting your sheep out too early in the spring, when
the pasture is too wet. Also, raw manure is hard on plants. This would
also be a problem if you are squeezing too many sheep on your land.
In my corner of Upstate New York, grass usually succeeds ground ivy, not
vice versa, unless the grass is over stressed. As it is, I've only
seen it happen in lawns, not sheep pastures, and we had a few that we
really squeezed.You may also need to introduce another variety of grass
or clover or alphalpha, for that matter, because if overgrazing is your
problem, you will be in a downward spiral as less of your land is
actually productive. The guy I used to work for used to say that you have
to renew pasture every seven years (although he didn't do it himself). Do
you have any land where there are no sheep, but it is in grass? What is
the ground ivy doing there?
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Good Luck
Karen Stark
ks36@cornell.edu
The habit of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those
that have not got it.
--G. B. Shaw
References:
- Weed
- From: gretchen3@juno.com (Gretchen E Becker)