Spring sure has sprung

Looking great Cedar. I get same invasive each year but seldom spray. Mowing before it seeds helps. But my plots I tend to allow mixture of weeds and grasses wo losing sleep over it. Deer pay no never mind. Look thru MM threads as he has great descriptions of herbicides to use. Good luck


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Still snowing here...with more forecast Wednesday and Thursday. Typical Catskills weather.... Our true spring weather is still a couple weeks away. Looking forward to tractor time in the plots.
 
Still snowing here...with more forecast Wednesday and Thursday. Typical Catskills weather.... Our true spring weather is still a couple weeks away. Looking forward to tractor time in the plots.
I'm north of you and we have snow forecasted for tonight and tomorrow with some accumulation. Winter hasn't left yet regardless of what the calendar says. Heck, I remember putting 150 miles on my snowmobile on Mother's Day a few years back. My wife and my two kids all rode their own sleds and we had dinner at one of the restaurants on the trail.
Our lawns are close to needing mowing but it'll be a few more days yet. No serious field work for a couple more weeks then we'll be full steam ahead.
 
Looking great Cedar. I get same invasive each year but seldom spray. Mowing before it seeds helps. But my plots I tend to allow mixture of weeds and grasses wo losing sleep over it. Deer pay no never mind. Look thru MM threads as he has great descriptions of herbicides to use. Good luck


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Thanks, dogghr. I would love to mow before too long but I really lack good cover on my place for fawns to hide so I’m thinking on just letting things grow in all of my plots. I’m ok as well with some weeds here and there but just didn’t want to allow something that might really be problematic to spread more. I don’t recall seeing this plant in the past but it could be that I’ve just overlooked it. My plant knowledge is limited to say the least.
The MM posts on herbicides have been a HUGE source of info for me so definitely a good mention there.
 
Nice Plot.

Yes, that does look like Yellow Rocket. If you stop it from seeding, it gets to be less and less of a problem. I usually just pull them by hand or whack them off at the ground with a hoe.
 
Nice Plot.

Yes, that does look like Yellow Rocket. If you stop it from seeding, it gets to be less and less of a problem. I usually just pull them by hand or whack them off at the ground with a hoe.

i like the pulling up option better than the spray for sure. The one pictured came right up and I don’t have many of them at this point. Thanks, Native.
 
Spring gave us a good teaser and left again, hopefully we will see those warmer temperatures soon.
Yellow rocket can be a real challenge to get rid of, but doesn't pose a serious threat to the clover. Fescue and other grasses are what suppresses and chokes out clover the most, although it's exactly like Dogghr mentioned, there's never a clear winner in the grass/clover struggle for supremacy, they usually each end up controlling patches and areas in an unsprayed field, therefore, the deer always will have some clover patches to graze, and this is a good method or having low maintenance wildlife plots if one has sufficient acreage to make it work.
I'd suggest either spraying a clover field correctly, which takes very little chemical, but needs to be done on schedule, thus totally keeping the plot weed free, or not spraying at all and letting nature keep the balance. An in-between stance of spraying sometimes, but just letting the weeds go sometimes, usually ends up dumping a lot of chemicals on a field with no clear results.
 
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