(Expletive Deleted) Blackberries
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Topic: (Expletive Deleted) Blackberries
Posted By: rustyorange45
Subject: (Expletive Deleted) Blackberries
Date Posted: 21 Oct 2020 at 2:47pm
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When is the best time of year to kill blackberries out of a pasture? Is there a certain time of the year to bush hog and kill them? Thanks, Tim ------------- 1953 WD45 WF/Model 90 Loader, Oxnard Rear Blade, 80R Mower, Model 209 Disc, WD Rear Mounted Scoop, Model 184 & 160 Rotary Mowers, 1952 CA NF/L306CA mower, 1953 CA WF/Model 8 Loader. |
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Posted By: Coke-in-MN
Date Posted: 21 Oct 2020 at 2:53pm
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Seems the dang things keep coming back - I have a bunch around base of apple trees I have mowed down and next spring new plants appear . Short of destroying roots they come back - it's just to keep them mowed down a second year that seems to limit their survival ------------- Faith isn't a jump in the dark. It is a walk in the light. Faith is not guessing; it is knowing something. "Challenges are what make life interesting; overcoming them is what makes life meaningful." |
Posted By: TimCNY
Date Posted: 21 Oct 2020 at 3:01pm
Multiple mowings, multiple years. Keep in mind that when being mowed a lot, they send out new sprouts many YARDS away from the original plant location which may mean that they'll be continuing to grow in adjacent/neighbor's fields. Of course, my suggestion is given as an alternative to spraying which I'm thinking you don't want to do in your pasture... spraying WORKS, though.  ------------- I need more than 200 characters for my "signature." I'd love to see that changed to 250! |
Posted By: rustyorange45
Date Posted: 21 Oct 2020 at 3:07pm
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I don't have a boom sprayer so mowing is the only way I have to control them. I bush hog the pasture every fall and hay it in June and they still keep coming back. I heard somewhere there was a certain time of the year to mow them and it will kill them. If not, what is the best herbicide to use with a spot sprayer? ------------- 1953 WD45 WF/Model 90 Loader, Oxnard Rear Blade, 80R Mower, Model 209 Disc, WD Rear Mounted Scoop, Model 184 & 160 Rotary Mowers, 1952 CA NF/L306CA mower, 1953 CA WF/Model 8 Loader. |
Posted By: DMiller
Date Posted: 21 Oct 2020 at 3:42pm
| Must be a different variety than have here, mow once Gone Forever. |
Posted By: FloydKS
Date Posted: 21 Oct 2020 at 4:24pm
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if you picked the blackberries and made a pie, would that erase some of the expletives... :) :) ------------- Holding a grudge is like taking poison and expecting the other person to die |
Posted By: DiyDave
Date Posted: 21 Oct 2020 at 5:45pm
Had 'em over at my brother's place, it were a gravel pit, back in the '70's, so real poor soil, birds would crap out the seeds from the power line running through the middle of the farm. Back when I started haying it, I rigged up one of them 25 gallon 'lectric sprayers, on top of the bush hog, mounted a nozzle on the tail wheel, sprayed 2,4-d and dicamba out as I bush hogged. That knocked'em out pretty fast... ------------- Source: Babylon Bee. Sponsored by BRAWNDO, its got what you need! |
Posted By: farmboy520
Date Posted: 21 Oct 2020 at 5:56pm
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What dave said with the 2-4D and dicamba or spray crossbow on the area. the only other thing you could do is spray the spot of them when you mow it off with a dab of Tordon. ------------- On the farm: Agco Allis 9695, 7060, 7010, R66, Farmall H, and Farmall F20 (Great Grandpa's) |
Posted By: Lars(wi)
Date Posted: 21 Oct 2020 at 9:03pm
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If you realize what a jar of blackberry jam costs at the grocery store........ ------------- I tried to follow the science, but it was not there. I then followed the money, and that’s where I found the science. |
Posted By: shameless dude
Date Posted: 21 Oct 2020 at 9:12pm
| we picked all the wild blackberries we could find around here and made jam from them. best tasting jam we've had in years, better than the store bought kinds. went to where we been picking them the past years and they aren't there no more. PfffffT! maybe next year? if you have them growing under plants/trees you want to keep, don't put Tordon on them, they are intermingled with the roots of the wanted stuff and it will kill them too. bush hogging very seldom kills them, just sets the growth back a bit. |
Posted By: HD6GTOM
Date Posted: 21 Oct 2020 at 9:37pm
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Old gal has been trying to get them started along the edge of the garden for years. Her dam goats get out every now and then and destroy them. It doesn't help with the thousands of head of white tail deer also chowing down on them. Just too much pressure on them to get them started here |
Posted By: GARY(OH/IN)
Date Posted: 21 Oct 2020 at 10:41pm
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Always wondered if there was a variety that don't have thorns. As a kid spent lots of time in the woods saying "ouch, dang it" over and over. I do know 50 sows in a 13 acre woods will kill them off.
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Posted By: desertjoe
Date Posted: 21 Oct 2020 at 11:32pm
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Well,,,I'll tell ya'll,,,,if they wanted to grow around here,,I would water them regular and even fertilizer them a time or two,,,,I LOVE Blackberry jam,,,,,
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Posted By: DiyDave
Date Posted: 22 Oct 2020 at 4:43am
There are thornless blackberries. Mom has 8-10 of them on the edge of the garden, If I can remember, I'l ask her what variety they are... ------------- Source: Babylon Bee. Sponsored by BRAWNDO, its got what you need! |
GARY(OH/IN) wrote:Posted By: SteveM C/IL
Date Posted: 24 Oct 2020 at 8:58pm
| Well,if you cultivate and cherish them for some blackberry pie....they will die.... |
Posted By: LeonR2013
Date Posted: 25 Oct 2020 at 3:41pm
| They make the best wine I ever made. Leon |
Posted By: jaybmiller
Date Posted: 25 Oct 2020 at 4:28pm
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only thing worse than blackberries is asperigus !! took me 3 YEARS to bury the stuff before it wouldn't 'reappear'...... ------------- 3 D-14s,A-C forklift, B-112 Kubota BX23S lil' TOOT( The Other Orange Tractor) Never burn your bridges, unless you can walk on water |
Posted By: DMiller
Date Posted: 25 Oct 2020 at 5:27pm
| LOVE Asparagus, have a hill of it trying to get it more productive, only two cuttings this year. |
Posted By: jaybmiller
Date Posted: 25 Oct 2020 at 5:50pm
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My late friend Rudy got me to dig 2 trenches with his 'borrowed' backhoe 40+- years ago...went 8 feet deep, filled 4-5 feet with well rotted compost, rest was real NICE loamy triplemixy soil... Alsway had tons of stalks.... Funny thing is if you zoom in the satellite shot of his property you can SEE the two rows even trhough the weeds and grass. ------------- 3 D-14s,A-C forklift, B-112 Kubota BX23S lil' TOOT( The Other Orange Tractor) Never burn your bridges, unless you can walk on water |