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- Thu Oct 03, 2024 10:17 pm
- Forum: Other Habitat Management
- Topic: Free native tree packs 2024
- Replies: 1
- Views: 2835
Re: Free native tree packs 2024
Out of interest I asked about the provenance of the seed/trees and was told "All DCC tree schemes administered within the Natural Environment Team are of UK and Ireland Sourced and Grown provenance (Woodland Trust UKISG certified)"
- Thu Aug 08, 2024 6:56 am
- Forum: Questions and Answers
- Topic: Ragwort
- Replies: 4
- Views: 4720
Re: Ragwort
Apparently Knepp control ragwort within 50m of their boundary, as per the law: https://knepp.co.uk/injurious-weeds-policy/
- Sun Jul 07, 2024 9:31 pm
- Forum: Life in the Meadow
- Topic: Dearth of meadow butterflies.
- Replies: 1
- Views: 2460
Re: Dearth of meadow butterflies.
I haven't seen that many butterflies ALL summer here on Dartmoor!
- Sun Jul 07, 2024 9:24 pm
- Forum: All about Garden Meadows
- Topic: Yellow rattle
- Replies: 4
- Views: 2379
Re: Yellow rattle
Valto63 - there is an abundance of grass in everyone's meadows at the moment due to - 1. the very wet spring and summer, 2. the fact that yellow rattle plants die mid-late June, and therefore the grass is no longer being parasitised. Was your sward short in spring? newinvention - in my experience ha...
- Tue Jul 02, 2024 10:10 pm
- Forum: Exmoor
- Topic: EXMOOR MEADOWS DAY
- Replies: 0
- Views: 2559
EXMOOR MEADOWS DAY
Posted on behalf of The Exmoor Society EXMOOR MEADOWS DAY Saturday 6th July ~ Hollam House, Dulverton TA22 9JH We are delighted to invite you to our Exmoor Meadows Day on Saturday 6th July at Hollam Estate, as part of National Meadows Day Find out how to create and manage beautiful wildflower rich m...
- Tue Jul 02, 2024 10:05 pm
- Forum: Videos
- Topic: Cactus tree guards - handy video demonstrating everything you need to know about installation!
- Replies: 2
- Views: 5652
Re: Cactus tree guards - handy video demonstrating everything you need to know about installation!
Bob - I get my chestnut stakes from Dorset Fencing Supples https://dorsetfencingsupplies.co.uk They deliver throughout the south west and have a wide range of materials. For 6' high guards you would use round 8ft 4-5β³ posts (you won't get split stakes that long, 4-5" will last longer than 3-4&q...
- Tue Jun 25, 2024 7:59 pm
- Forum: Questions and Answers
- Topic: Harrowing
- Replies: 3
- Views: 2625
Re: Harrowing
In my experience, chain harrows are not the best implement. They might work at a push if you haven't got anything else and haven't got a big area, but it'll take a while before you have any exposed earth. A spring tine cultivator, like a triple k would be better. Mind that if you are flailing the sw...
- Sun Jun 23, 2024 10:19 am
- Forum: Questions and Answers
- Topic: Yellow rattle
- Replies: 5
- Views: 4009
Re: Yellow rattle
Claire, it's a very common misconception that the seeds need frost in order to germinate - if that were the case, rattle would also have vanished from other nearby meadows, when actually it did not. According to the definitive work on the species by Duncan Westbury (attached), about 3 months at temp...
- Mon Jun 17, 2024 4:47 pm
- Forum: News and Events
- Topic: Moor Meadows' Open Meadows programme 2024
- Replies: 1
- Views: 4357
Re: Moor Meadows' Open Meadows programme 2024
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- Sun Jun 02, 2024 5:37 pm
- Forum: Questions and Answers
- Topic: Yellow rattle
- Replies: 5
- Views: 4009
Re: Yellow rattle
Claire, if you had an abundance of rattle last year, there are really only two reasons why you wouldn't have it this year. 1. the rattle was grazed after germinating in mid-spring this year. 2. the sward was not open enough for the rattle to successfully germinate into this spring. From what you say...