So I’ve read it’s generally impervious to mowing and/or pulling from the root, due to its extensive / deep runners. Sounds like the remedy is to change my hayfield soil pH and drainage. Which I can do, but wondering if any other experiences out there? Worth doing this work now, in the middle of haying season, or just wait until last cutting and then dig up pasture…
I would go after now, you don’t want it in the hay. I do know it is naturally impervious to the glycosophate ( Round Up and the spin offs) based weed killers. Dig and put in the brush pile to prevent rerooting.
Digging doesn’t work. It’s a spreading rhizome and will just resprout friom any pieces left behind.
Have you asked your extension agent/USDA Farm Service/NRCS people what they recommend in your area?
Here they use aerial spraying because when we have a year where those take over, that generally involves thousands of acres.
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I kill it with 2,4-D. This stuff doesn’t bother grass; it kills broadleaf weeds only.
Then you are lucky. Nothing kills that stuff.
one that shoots flaming arrows would work … from what I have read mares tail is a cool weather weed so it would either need to be controlled in the fall or tilled in the spring.
Nothing gets it! We removed our 9’ swimming pool and it was down there, happily working its way up. It is kept manageable in our field by mowing. But it always came back no matter what. (If having fill brought in make sure
it does not contain any.) It’s a prehistoric wonder.
