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- Thu May 04, 2023 5:30 pm
- Forum: Questions and Answers
- Topic: Too much yellow rattle?
- Replies: 7
- Views: 2750
Re: Too much yellow rattle?
Jackie - that betony currently looks like a prize specimen! As an experiment, if you have another nearby plant, you could always control the rattle around one of them to see if it has any effect. The rattle may just be suppressing the grass around the betony, meaning that the betony actually has les...
- Thu Apr 20, 2023 6:49 am
- Forum: News and Events
- Topic: Field scale cut and collect mower with operator
- Replies: 12
- Views: 3099
Re: Field scale cut and collect mower with operator
@TheField - it says that anyone who is interested should email Simon Tomasso at stomasso@devonwildlifetrust.org
- Sat Mar 11, 2023 9:37 pm
- Forum: Managing Meadows with Livestock
- Topic: When to graze
- Replies: 2
- Views: 2241
Re: When to graze
Debra, were you not given a management plan with your restoration project? If you have a hay meadow, and it was sown with yellow rattle, then since it's an annual, it's essential that it isn't grazed after germinating, as you'll lose it from the meadow. I don't know the season in sunny Totnes, but i...
- Tue Mar 07, 2023 7:46 pm
- Forum: Meadows/wildlife habitat for sale
- Topic: 4 acres of saltmarsh near Barnstaple
- Replies: 0
- Views: 3679
4 acres of saltmarsh near Barnstaple
4 acres of saltmarsh near Barnstaple
- Thu Mar 02, 2023 5:06 pm
- Forum: Identify This
- Topic: Identify Flower from 1867
- Replies: 7
- Views: 2299
Re: Identify Flower from 1867
Kind of looks like lavender - does it still smell?
- Sun Feb 12, 2023 6:56 pm
- Forum: News and Events
- Topic: Field scale cut and collect mower with operator
- Replies: 12
- Views: 3099
Re: Field scale cut and collect mower with operator
That sounds like a cool piece of kit. Is it an all in one machine (flail + collector) or separate? If the former it wouldn't be suitable for making hay...therefore would the cuttings just have to be composted? And do they have any idea of the rate per day that they are likely to charge?
- Tue Jan 24, 2023 9:58 pm
- Forum: Other Habitat Management
- Topic: Water, water everywhere
- Replies: 5
- Views: 3120
Re: Water, water everywhere
Generally speaking there is positive correlation between wetness in meadows and species diversity, however, we've had an extraordinary amount of rain over the last few weeks, even by Devon standards - I've also had springs come up in places I don't remember seeing before - so I'd be hesitant in impl...
- Mon Sep 19, 2022 9:04 am
- Forum: South Devon
- Topic: Need help giving meadow its late summer cut!
- Replies: 1
- Views: 2179
Re: Need help giving meadow its late summer cut!
I suggest sending a message to Lynne Kenderdine memberlist.php?mode=viewprofile&u=239 lkenderdine@devonwildlifetrust from the Avon Valley Project. She is likely to have local contractor contacts.
- Thu Sep 15, 2022 10:24 am
- Forum: Meadow Cutting
- Topic: Selling/giving away hay with yellow rattle in it
- Replies: 4
- Views: 2801
Re: Selling/giving away hay with yellow rattle in it
Hi Jon, I don't agree with your farmer. I have about 40 acres of hay meadows full of yellow rattle, from which the hay/lage is fed to my cows, and I've never known the seed to spread to fields where I don't want it. However, as an annual, if Yellow rattle seeds were to germinate and grow where they'...
- Mon Jul 25, 2022 11:49 am
- Forum: Identify This
- Topic: Help with Flower ID, please
- Replies: 2
- Views: 2879
Re: Help with Flower ID, please
Common centuary. Lovely indeed. I did have some plants in my haymeadow, but they seem to have gone unfortunately.