LHS Inc
Gold Member
- Joined
- Nov 16, 2010
- Messages
- 357
- Location
- Eastern Shore, Maryland
- Tractor
- JD 3520 eHydro w/300CX FEL
We just got our ditches on the farm mowed after about five years of woody growth. I'd like to keep them looking this good year round and the only thing I can think of besides hiring to have them mowed would be spraying them myself when the new growth starts.
The fields surrounding the ditches are all in the CRP program so access to them at different times of the year wouldn't be a problem.
I'm thinking of using Crossbow which is a 2-4D type product for woody/broadleaf plants thus leaving any grass for erosion protection.
I want to be enviromentally safe as possible due to some of the ditches carrying water at various times of the year.
Rodeo would be safe to use but with the Glyphosate it would kill the grass too.
Is anyone doing this and if so what are you using.
Like I said I would like to keep the ditches clean if thats possible and waiting for the woody veg to grow up enough to cut would defeat my purpose.
We don't have a ditch bank mower and buying one is not an option. I am set up to spray.
Thanks
The fields surrounding the ditches are all in the CRP program so access to them at different times of the year wouldn't be a problem.
I'm thinking of using Crossbow which is a 2-4D type product for woody/broadleaf plants thus leaving any grass for erosion protection.
I want to be enviromentally safe as possible due to some of the ditches carrying water at various times of the year.
Rodeo would be safe to use but with the Glyphosate it would kill the grass too.
Is anyone doing this and if so what are you using.
Like I said I would like to keep the ditches clean if thats possible and waiting for the woody veg to grow up enough to cut would defeat my purpose.
We don't have a ditch bank mower and buying one is not an option. I am set up to spray.
Thanks