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| So I recently discovered i have nightshade in my pasture... i'm horrified... I'm gonna fence off half the pasture with the most of it and spray it and respray the whole pasture 6 weeks later and then work the ground and re seed it... then next year do the other half of pasture.... But how does night shade spread? how could i of gotten it? |
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  Sweet Tea
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Location: Home of the World Famous "Silver Bullet" | we spray weeds every year. the best i know to tell you is to walk your pastures and develope an eye for the weed and pull it up. then burn it. it pulls up very easily. just spend some time in your pastures on a regular basis. |
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 Keeper of the King Snake
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Location: Dubach, LA | Off to goggle. Never heard of this. |
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Location: NW. Florida | It has a little lantern looking seed pod. |
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| Well Nighshade... there are many different types... mine is this one Solanum carolinense |
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Location: Cap'n Joan Rotgut.....alberta | i think working it up may spread it.......its spread by seeds and roots......so in other words pita.....you may have to hand pick it and just keep an eye for it and keep picking it..........
It is resistant to many postemergent herbicides and somewhat resistant to broad-spectrum herbicides such as glyphosphate and 2,4-D(i found this part on google)
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 I Am Always Right
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Location: stray dump capital of the world | CanCan - 2014-07-16 12:45 PM Off to goggle. Never heard of this.
You are not alone in the quest for knowledge. Haha! I had to google too. |
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Location: Never in one place long | mruggles - 2014-07-16 3:28 PM
i think working it up may spread it.......its spread by seeds and roots......so in other words pita.....you may have to hand pick it and just keep an eye for it and keep picking it.......... It is resistant to many postemergent herbicides and somewhat resistant to broad-spectrum herbicides such as glyphosphate and 2,4-D (i found this part on google ) m
I agree, by working up the soil you are only bringing more seeds to light, this may bring more up and make it worse. I'd declare war on it by doing as was suggested, pulling them by hand and burning them. This will ensure they are gone and die without stirring up more seeds and it will allow for the other plants to take over. How scary! |
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| I had a horse that developed some weird symptoms in february, i took her to the vet and night shade was one of the things I asked her about if it could possibly be in my hay, she said that it doesnt taste good and chances are they wouldnt eat it anyway. But I would say dig it up before you work up the field. I have seen it a few times on the border fence between my neighbor and me, i just dig it with a shovel and it seems to go away, not sure if it comes up from a seed or root. |
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Location: NM...the Land of Manana | Silverleaf nightshade is ubiquitous out here and hard as heck to get rid of but they are prickly little buggers and everything seems to leave them alone. We have sprayed, pulled, whacked and everything in between and they still keep coming. |
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