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earthyvirgo



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PostPosted: Sun Jul 27, 14 8:10 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

However, https://www.buglife.org.uk/news-%26-events/news/ragwort-pullers-threaten-ecology-forest

and

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/earthnews/3348991/Conservation-warning-over-ragwort-hysteria.html

So ragwort removal is only really important where there are grazing livestock.

EV

Mistress Rose



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PostPosted: Mon Jul 28, 14 6:40 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

Having read all that lot it seems it is all right to leave the ragwort in the woods as there are no grazing animals for several hundred yards now. The coppice should start to shade it out next year or the year after anyway. Think this coup was nitrified by run off from the field next door, as the new coup I am studying hasn't grown anything like as much in one summer as this one did. You know there was interaction with the field when you find wheat growing in a hazel and ash coppice coup.

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