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Managing thick grass in overgrown orchard
Nick Maclaren wrote:
In article , David Hill wrote: I've recently taken on the management of a somewhat overgrown 1.5 acre orchard and I'm struggling to keep the thick hill-grass, docks, nettles and thistles under control. ... Sheep don't like long grass. Goats would do but they would like low branches as well. It's the non-grasses that are the real problem for grazing. I don't know whether goats and donkeys will eat those, in real life rather than fiction, but none of sheep, horses or even cattle will. Cattle would do, if the non-grasses were cut down at least a couple of times a year, but only then. Any grazing animals in an orchard will be a disaster, they will browse as well as graze. Not only will they eat the fruit, they will damage branches as well. -- Chris Green · |
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