rachels.haven's Journal

[Baymule]

That sounds much easier than permethrin spray baths. Do you recall what does per pound you gave?

It has a pound increments of I think 50 pounds on the applicator. Kinda hard to measure out in small doses, but like @farmerjan siad, a little too much won’t hurt.

 

[rachels.haven]

The pasture is sprayed. I took the john Deere lawn mower and hitched the tow behind sprayer to it and sprayed the whole thing with Roundup and not nearly enough blue dye. I guess we get to see if the grass dies now.

The bottle says I can replant in three days but it can take up to a week to die. I think I will wait a week. It's about to rain for a week again anyway. I'd like to plant again right after the rain stops.

 

[Bruce]

Maybe get out there and spread some fertilizer before the rain? Give the seeds a good start when you spread that?

 

[rachels.haven]

Maybe get out there and spread some fertilizer before the rain? Give the seeds a good start when you spread that?

I could do that. I think it needs lime too.

 

[rachels.haven]

Here, 2-3 days later is my Roundup sprayed pasture. Foreground in both pics is unsprayed. Reviews of people who are actually happy with it spray double strength and still have to re apply for a complete kill. Majority of the 5 stars are rants against Monsanto and thyroid cancer.

Looks like I'm hitting up TSC for the generic and getting more blue dye.

 

[rachels.haven]

Directions say that for lawn replacement in a week if green spots remain to re apply. Well, at day three I see a massive green spot. I'd take a spotty kill as success, but this was a flop.

 

[Finnie]

I don’t know, Rachel. Give it a few more days. You might be surprised.

I think on a few more days, you will be seeing a lot of dead areas that won’t need to be resprayed.

 

[rachels.haven]

I hope so. That would be wonderful. If I can reduce the fescue to 40% I'd be happy with that. Maybe I'll hold off grabbing the roundup. It's only 10 minutes away.

 

[rachels.haven]

Last night we had another dwarf kid born and the kids would not go to bed so milking got pushed back late. When I stepped out on the porch with the milk stuff the dogs were waiting at the gate (Bailey likes to wait for the opportunity to steal goat food that she is never allowed now). From the back of the pasture comes a very deep, blood curdling "aye, WOOOOOOOOOOO.... aye, aye, aye. And both dogs take off and book it to the back fence way faster than it makes sense for 100 lbs and 130lbs dogs to be able to go and raise Cain like they have a funeral planned and they found a donor for the body. Wow. The coyote kept teasing them but no coyotes were coming in. The dogs kept sweeping the fence lines and were out on edge even when the howling stopped. Very big working dogs last night.

Coyotes here do not sound like the wooooooo howling/barking/shrieking ones we had in New England. They yip and howl. Not sure if they can bark like a dog at all.

 

[Baymule]

Good dogs!