RAGWEED

Geo-TH,In · Jun 8, 2014

Ragweed is in full bloom. Went for a short mule ride last night, looked at all the wild flowers growing in old gravel pit, before my sinuses kicked in. I need to put a resperator on and mow down the 3 ft tall white flowers, then jump in the shower. Need to do the mowing when the dew is still on the weeds to keep some of the crap from getting in my eyes too.

This is definately the best time to keep my windows closed and AC on, hi humidity too.

I was outside all day, only really got bad when I went for a mule ride through the ragweed.

How is the ragweed where you live?
George

Anonymous-0 · Jun 8, 2014

Just coming up, NY/Pa border
joe

muleboss · Jun 8, 2014

(quoted from post at 08:34:43 06/08/14 Went for a short mule ride last night,

Was that a short mule or a short ride?

Geo-TH,In · Jun 8, 2014

A 2012 4010 kaw mule and a short ride.

rustyfarmall · Jun 8, 2014

(quoted from post at 05:34:43 06/08/14) Ragweed is in full bloom. Went for a short mule ride last night, looked at all the wild flowers growing in old gravel pit, before my sinuses kicked in. I need to put a resperator on and mow down the 3 ft tall white flowers, then jump in the shower. Need to do the mowing when the dew is still on the weeds to keep some of the crap from getting in my eyes too.

This is definately the best time to keep my windows closed and AC on, hi humidity too.

I was outside all day, only really got bad when I went for a mule ride through the ragweed.

How is the ragweed where you live?
George

Don't make yourself suffer by mowing it. 2,4d will get rid of it easily.

Mike (WA) · Jun 8, 2014

I've ridden mules a couple of times. IMHO, no mule ride is short enough. I wouldn't have even gotten as far as the ragweed patch, problem solved.

VaTom · Jun 8, 2014

George, try nasalcrom 1/2 hr before you go outside, you'll find relief from pollens. It prevents the pollens from sticking in your nasal passages. Expensive prescription when I first started using it, now over-the-counter in grocery stores. Not a steroid, no side effects that I've ever found.

It does nothing to relieve an allergic reaction, must be used before the reaction. Since you have closed windows, should work for you. A squirt up each nostril before going outside.

No ragweed problem here. I also don't use herbicides. No fields, so the small number of sprouts that birds/wind award me with are uprooted before it blooms. Makes good compost.

I also chose to live a distance from anyone cutting hay, another allergen for me. Our house gets a total air change every two hours, with filtered fresh air. Breathing freely sure is nice.

Allergies are a huge business here and after our first year we packed up to go looking for somewhere easier to breathe. On that trip I learned how to live here comfortably: 1) spending many hours each day in a house with clean air, and 2) using nasalcrom before going outside when allergens are high.

Good luck.

Billy NY · Jun 8, 2014

Only comes up in areas that were disturbed, tillage etc,, the previous year, or so it seems. large field adjacent to me, was in corn, but the first planting was washed out last June, then it was replanted, geese took that crop down, and it was sprayed for weeds I am sure, crop was left standing, deer came in during the winter and "yarded" up around the short corn left standing, then this spring, it was a solid stand of yellow flower/ragweed, was mold board plowed under, much of it stood back up somehow, then with secondary tillage, it was gone. Funny how it works, if I just till up a patch of dirt, mid, late summer, next spring it will be covered in rag weed. Grade something with a dozer, same time of year, same thing.

JD Seller · Jun 8, 2014

Rusty Your ragweeds must be different than the ones I have around here. 2-4D does NOTHING to them. Even heavy rates of Roundup are not killing them all.

Fergienewbee · Jun 8, 2014

It all depends on your "crop." Ragweed makes excellent brood cover for quail and turkey poults. Rabbits and deer hit it pretty hard too. Fall soil disturbance generates more ragweed than spring.

Larry

ShadetreeRet · Jun 8, 2014

Growing like a weed!

samn40 · Jun 8, 2014

I wonder are you talking about the same ragweed we have in Ireland?.....it is poisonous if fed to cattle but real bad on horses. I have also heard of cases where horse owners have went pulling it out by root and ended up with liver problems......Sam

Geo-TH,In · Jun 8, 2014

All I have to do is take a tylenol PM and get in an Air conditioned pollen free house. If it's really bad, 2 tylenol PM. Too many meds and I will end up, all dried out and a throbbing headache.

I also take a quick shower and put clothes in Washer to reduce the pollen in house.

Works for me.

rustyfarmall · Jun 8, 2014

(quoted from post at 08:28:35 06/08/14) Rusty Your ragweeds must be different than the ones I have around here. 2-4D does NOTHING to them. Even heavy rates of Roundup are not killing them all.

We have the common ragweed, and also giant ragweed, otherwise known as "horseweeds". 2,4d is very effective on both.

4xMF · Jun 8, 2014

(quoted from post at 12:49:41 06/08/14) I wonder are you talking about the same ragweed we have in Ireland?.....it is poisonous if fed to cattle but real bad on horses. I have also heard of cases where horse owners have went pulling it out by root and ended up with liver problems......Sam

I don't think it is this one they mean. I think they are talking about some kind of Ambrosie. It is not a natural plant here in Northern Europe but is spreading from the south. It may not have reached your Island yet. It looks a lot like what I think you may call Mugwort (Artemisia Vulgaris).

Geo-TH,In · Jun 8, 2014

The flower is very similar, but it has white peddles with a touch of yellow in center. All I know is it makes me sneeze, eyes water/itch and nose run. Plant get about 3 feet tall.

I like flowers, including the wild flowers that grow in my old gravel pit, where you wouldn't think anything could grow in yellow dry sand and gravel.

We've been trying to grow other wild flowers, with some limited success. There are also some trees, bushes and asian honeysuckle which could go away. To our surprise, somehow the scars of removing sand and gravel are healing. BTW, it was a gravel pit that sold sand and gravel to the county years ago, long before we got the property.

There is even a grass that grows in some places. Love to know what grass can survive such poor conditions.

Geo-TH,In · Jun 8, 2014

Well after googling ragweed pics, I question if what I'm calling ragweed is really ragweed. Whatever the plant is, it really messes with me. I should blame the boss, she calls this weed, ragweed.

Sorry.
George

Traditional Farmer · Jun 9, 2014

Also Doves will flock to Ragweed once its seeds.

rustyfarmall · Jun 9, 2014

(quoted from post at 20:02:38 06/08/14) Well after googling ragweed pics, I question if what I'm calling ragweed is really ragweed. Whatever the plant is, it really messes with me. I should blame the boss, she calls this weed, ragweed.

Sorry.
George

Ragweed does bloom, but the bloom isn't very much of a flower. It's more like a stem loaded with pollen. Ragweed causes all kinds of grief for me also, therefore I declare all out war and do my best to eliminate it before it can pollinate. That is how I know 2,4d works.

Geo-TH,In · Jun 9, 2014

What ever kind of weed I have, may not be ragweed,
but it kicks my sinuses in hi gear.

No way am I going to use chemicals when I have a
well. I'll just keep my distance.

I have similar problems in the gravel pit hunting
mushrooms. My nose detects them. At that time there
is something else that sets me off.

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