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earthyvirgo

Joined: 24 Aug 2007
Posts: 7972
Location: creating prints in the loft, Gerlan

Posted: Sun Jul 27, 14 8:10 pm Post subject:
However, https://www.buglife.org.uk/news-%26-events/news/ragwort-pullers-threaten-ecology-forest and https://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/earthnews/3348991/Conservation-warning-over-ragwort-hysteria.html So ragwort removal is only really important where there are grazing livestock. EV

Mistress Rose

Joined: 21 Jul 2011
Posts: 15986

Posted: Mon Jul 28, 14 6:40 am Post subject:

Having read all that lot it seems it is all right to leave the ragwort in the woods as there are no grazing animals for several hundred yards now. The coppice should start to shade it out next year or the year after anyway. Think this coup was nitrified by run off from the field next door, as the new coup I am studying hasn't grown anything like as much in one summer as this one did. You know there was interaction with the field when you find wheat growing in a hazel and ash coppice coup.

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