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  • From: Willie Gibson <willie.gibson AT uvm.edu>
  • To: "Market Farming" <market-farming AT franklin.oit.unc.edu>
  • Subject: Re: Dock in pasture
  • Date: Fri, 12 Oct 2001 11:33:44 -0400

Miranda - Thank you for clarifying which dock, as identifying correctly the organism of concern is a crucial part of knowing how to manage it.
Curly dock IS a PERENNIAL, so the intense mowing that you used WAS needed to reduce the plant vitality and population rapidly (also good approach to reduce most any other broadleaf (dicot) herbaceous perennials, like Canada thistle, milkweed,  poison ivy, ferns, bindweeds, etc.

+Willie G.
At 11:21 PM 10/11/01 -0400, you wrote:
What about curly dock? That's what I was dealing with.
 
Miranda Smith

Hello-
Common burdock is a biennial in these parts.  First year a vegetative plant, year 2 send sup the classically known 'tree' with multiple flowers and accompanying burs protecting and providing transport to seeds.  Mowing continually will work, but it is over-kill as all one need do is to not allow it to flower - ever - and eventually the seedbank will run out.  Cultivation will prevent new seedlings from becoming viable first year plants, and thus, not ever flowering second year plants.


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