Posted by jackinok on December 26, 2012 at 07:30:15 from (162.58.82.136):
In Reply to: Re: broomweed, posted by pea_grower on December 26, 2012 at 06:58:08:
i mowed about 200(@) acres mid to late august ,just as it started its fall blooming cycle . As far as I can tell none has came back on the part ive got mowed, and it really helped the drought starved grass.( but to be honest, with the lack of rain weve had i couldnt say how much i actually killed) blooming got ahead of me on the rest and i quit mowing ,but i intend to hit it early in the spring at the first sign of a bloom. thats the key i think,to mow it at the right time.once it blooms its pretty much over beacuse it already has seed far enough along to germinate. if you can catch it just before the bloom stage and mow it, it gives the grass time to help choke it out. it gets worse in the really dry years simply because the grass is thinner and it can get more seed to the ground. thats also what makes it particularly bad on overgrazed properties. once it gets established it simply soaks up so much water it becomes the dominant plant. Its easy to kill by spraying but you need to spray it about the same time you would mow,and do it twice a year. once it becomes really established it is no longer a annual weed like most folks think. its becomes perennial simply because it blooms and drops seed twice a year instead of once like a regular annual does. it doesnt drop seed and die,it drops seed and becomes dormant,then starts producing seed again when the fall rains start up again. btreaking one or the other (fall or spring) breaks the cycle and it doesnt produce the next years seed. but since it blooms twice you have fall and spring germinating seed. on this particular place, my intention is to leave a lot of the native weed that spraying would kill also. so mowing is how i decided to do. it takes longer generally costs more but its selective which is what i want in this case. i will get a head of the broomweed , then work on whatever other problems. as fro now its simply my biggest problem.
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