Guest Ditch_Shitter Posted February 15, 2007 Report Share Posted February 15, 2007 I live surrounded by it. I'm thus always going on about it. It just occurs to me that not everybody even has a clue what the hell I'm on about ~ by name, anyway. So today I just shot some and am putting it here as a referance for ye. This is the stuff I'm talking about look: Juncas Rush See? Everybody knows it. Ye just might never have come across its correct name before. But that's it Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Guest peakhound Posted February 15, 2007 Report Share Posted February 15, 2007 Yep, that looks depressingly familiar! The boggy parts of our field are coverd with it! The dogs love it though - they can go tearing around through it playing commandos and splattering mud and bog water everywhere.... This pic shows "Tag" and "Kite" resting part way through Tag teaching the pup how to play bog trotting!! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Guest Ditch_Shitter Posted February 15, 2007 Report Share Posted February 15, 2007 The dogs love it though - they can go tearing around through it playing commandos and splattering mud and bog water everywhere.... Exactly! Small Dog adores the bloody stuff! Goes in white. Sporadically appears - Gray! And there always seems to be a bloody Wren in there somewhere too! Oddly enough; The very (Boggy) ground ye find this shit on used to be quite a phobia of mine! I had waking nightmares of finding myself amidst a sea of the stuff. Heh! Then I got over it and came to Co. Leitrim! Off out in it again, in a minute. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Guest Lurcherbitch Posted February 15, 2007 Report Share Posted February 15, 2007 Yeah and peakhounds lightest colour pony lurves to go paddling in it to Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Guest peakhound Posted February 15, 2007 Report Share Posted February 15, 2007 For the record, the "lightest coloured pony" is Dun - she put the "dun" into "dunny" for any aussie speakers out there! Ditch - thanks for telling us the name of this marsh grass stuff, should have paid more attention in my plant physiology lectures, but then in those days talking about a "rush" was a completely different thing... :whistle: Quote Link to post Share on other sites
T.F.Student 0 Posted February 15, 2007 Report Share Posted February 15, 2007 Cheers DS...Just called em rushes...now i know better...here's some of mine Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Guest Ditch_Shitter Posted February 15, 2007 Report Share Posted February 15, 2007 If ye'd told me that shot was from Eire, mate; I'd have had no trouble believing ye! Now, as we seem to be gathering quite the little 'JR Fan Club' here ..... We discussed this stuff at some length in Chat recently. Main thrust of the conversation being; What in hells good is it to man or beast?! I have an acre of this shit right outside my gate here and I run both my donkey and my goats on it. Niether of them would thank ye for a mouthful! When the grass grows up from between those crowded clumps and we cut the 'Hay', 90% of that ends up spat onto the stable floors because they don't like it dried either. My neighbour very kindly " Licks " mine for me ~ That's to say he drags a wide roller across it, saturated in Herbicide. But all this seems to do is 3/4 deaden the damn stuff. Then it just sits there, glaring at me, till next spring when, no doubt, it'll start it's next surge of vigorous and rampant growth. World domination is obviously it's core intent then. It's too short to be woven. People used to strew it around the floor. I have used it as Dog bedding and actually find it quite passable. Maybe even too so? Ye see; It's so damn indestructable that a good heap per bed just sits there and lasts them about four months! What I'm saying is; Ye just can't get rid of the f*cking stuff, no matter what ye do to it or with it! Pile it up on ye land and it just sits there - for ever! Can't burn it, or they'll send the chopper in and fine ye Thousands, on the spot. Nothing eats it. It's virtually indestructable, living and growing or cut and dried. Nothing wants to eat it and it blots out that which things Do want to eat. Only plan the native Irish have found workable so far is to plough the f*cking lot under and swiftly get down some proper grass seed. I'm not averse to a spot of hard graft myself, but at my age? I thing shoving a plough into the bog, by hand, may prove a tad much for me Anyone else out there ever actually came up with a solution to this scourge? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Guest Macnas Posted February 15, 2007 Report Share Posted February 15, 2007 Used to be used for thatching roofs mainly. And its poisonous as well, according to my smart arse brother the field biologist. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
T.F.Student 0 Posted February 15, 2007 Report Share Posted February 15, 2007 Well Ditch if you stuck Ireland and England back together it would be about in line with Donegal Bit of info here:- http://www.gardenorganic.org.uk/organicwee.../weed.php?id=65 I remember asking about the removal of it a few years ago and was told you've got to up the ph of the soil. Which seems to be what they're saying on the site above. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
DUCKWING 302 Posted February 15, 2007 Report Share Posted February 15, 2007 WELL DS , THE THRESHES AS THE HILL FARMERS UP HERE CALL THEM . HAVE BEEN USED FOR YRS AND YRS AS BEDDING , IF YOU KEEP CUTTING THEM BACK SHORT WITH THE SLIAGE CUTTER THEY DIE OFF ........... THEN AGAIN THEY ARE LOVELY SPOTS FOR GAME TO LIE IN ALL THE BEST DUCKWING Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Guest Ditch_Shitter Posted February 15, 2007 Report Share Posted February 15, 2007 Macnas; I've come across referances to it's 'Toxicity'. However, is seems to be one of those 'Doctors differ' points, such as we find with fungii. Some say it's toxic. Others that it's simply 'Indigestable'. Of course, if by that they mean it'll give ye gut rot? That's some peoples idea of toxic. Either way it's nothings graze of choice. TF; I've just come back from some extensive Googling. Seems draining the land is a bit of a prerequissete, at least over here. Agritox - 50 (probably what Pat licks it with) can kill it, but it says the shit will still stand there for a year, needing cattle to trample and generally flatten out the dead stuff. Anyway, with that in mind, I've a mind to spend the weekend with my Brush Cutter and raze what's out there. I'm figuring the rest of the wet weather may better help degrade it. Do the cut in summer and it'd just lay there, dry. I'd also risk cutting down my real grass. (Aha! With that I read DW's input. Duck; I took a grass hook to the stuff in my small paddock and, yeppers; I't not come back yet. If it does, I'll cut it low again. Maybe I can defeat it with my brush cutter, if I just don't give it a chance to get it's breath?) Oh and, there's Plenty around here for the Game! It's just my own patch I'm bothered about. Not the hundreds of acres of Juncus surrounding me I'm really getting quite obsessive about this. I value pasture grazing for my own animals. I'm green with envy for the fields which Have been re sown and are now bright green and lush. It's also just so much a part of my life that it's always there to remind me. I'd just feel so damn pleased to be able to have my friends and neighbours look upon my own little loaned acre and say, " Well; Ditch certainly took care of That piece! ". I wonder if hand trenching and burying runs of this perforated, plastic pipe we have round here may help drain that field? I'll have to make enqiries of the lads Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Guest MOLLY Posted February 16, 2007 Report Share Posted February 16, 2007 The water voles here seem to make their homes or tunnels in it....very boggy. MOLL. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
snoopdog 1,256 Posted February 16, 2007 Report Share Posted February 16, 2007 thers plenty of it round me to i just call it tuft grass..never new the proper name for it ... :thumbs-up: Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Guest Ditch_Shitter Posted February 17, 2007 Report Share Posted February 17, 2007 Ye sure it's voles, Moll? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Guest MOLLY Posted February 18, 2007 Report Share Posted February 18, 2007 Yep definately Ditchy, the dogs occasionally become interested in certain areas, watching one day saw a vole make its escape. Seen foot prints next to the burn and even asked the farmer. He said there always have been but there are very few there now. Needless to say the dogs are always stopped now. MOLL. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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