Keystone Krops

[MarkDarvin]

I have never used AMS all I know is what I have read on our friend Google after you mentioned it. Are you talking liquid or powder? where can it be bought?
This plot has been quite the expirence so far. It hadn't been croped for 50 years. I nuked it with gly cut it 2 weeks later disced it up and sowed clover and cultipacted, it started to green up nice then the clover got overtaken with this darn weed (I guess 50 years of seed bank would do that) I had never seen this weed before it is called Spreading Dog Bane (pictured) in 3 weeks it was getting ready flower, it aparantly is toxic to cattle if they eat very much and the deer were certainly munching on it so it was nuked and replanted in clover and cultipacked 2 weeks later. By Oct. it was a very nice clover patch minus the Dog Bane. So now it is the grass to deal with, one way or another the problems will be solved (The Irish can be very stuborn sometimes)

Your booming crop of dog bane is interesting. I tried to find that in my weed book and could not. Did I read that correctly, that your deer very much enjoyed eating it?

The fact that it was your response weed to glyphosate application is interesting. Most others get thistles, pigweeds, and other chem-resistant supers. Do you have a comprehensive soil test from those plots? Typically, weeds are the soil test, but yours isn't in my book, and it's the first I've ever heard of it.

 

[Mountain Man]

Your booming crop of dog bane is interesting. I tried to find that in my weed book and could not. Did I read that correctly, that your deer very much enjoyed eating it?

The fact that it was your response weed to glyphosate application is interesting. Most others get thistles, pigweeds, and other chem-resistant supers. Do you have a comprehensive soil test from those plots? Typically, weeds are the soil test, but yours isn't in my book, and it's the first I've ever heard of it.

Your booming crop of dog bane is interesting. I tried to find that in my weed book and could not. Did I read that correctly, that your deer very much enjoyed eating it?

The fact that it was your response weed to glyphosate application is interesting. Most others get thistles, pigweeds, and other chem-resistant supers. Do you have a comprehensive soil test from those plots? Typically, weeds are the soil test, but yours isn't in my book, and it's the first I've ever heard of it.

Yes the deer seemed to enjoy munching on it (picture 1) it was getting ready to flower so I quickly nuked it (picture2) then TM clover again.
Check goggle it seems this weed can be found in most 50 states in USA. My great crop came from the seed bank in the soil, I;m thinking dog bane seeds are like mustard seeds which will sit in the soil for years until the soil is disturbfd then up they come, the surrounding area is loaded with the stuff mixed in with other grasses and vegetation. Check out goggle the stuff is toxic to livestock.

 

[MarkDarvin]

Yeah, any place else, that is milkweed, and it's a very important flower for monarchs. I have it on my place, albeit a different variety, same family. It's not aggressive for me, and it's just prevalent enough to be a reliable host for those butterflies.

 

[Mountain Man]

Yeah, any place else, that is milkweed, and it's a very important flower for monarchs. I have it on my place, albeit a different variety, same family. It's not aggressive for me, and it's just prevalent enough to be a reliable host for those butterflies.

No Mark this not milkweed we have lots of milk weed in and around that plot, when I am doing maintenance in the area my wife is looking for monarch larva last year she hatched and released 57 beautifull monarchs