Thread: Name that weed...

Originally Posted by emu243

I am yet to find anything animal that will adequately control it for you.

Deer will control it if they are behind wire. A mate has a heap of Asiatic deer species behind wire and there isn't a Biddy Bush to be seen. But the same old thing of seeds blowing in from next door would soon have it growing again once the deer where removed.

It is true that it doesn't like super or competition, but that is cost prohibitive on the scale that we work with. Best we can do is spray when and where we can and dig or pull it when a plant or three is seen out on it's own (trying to make a new patch)

I had not thought of deer as a way of controlling biddy bush. I would find it interesting to go down that path but I suspect that with fencing it would be more expensive than pasture improvment.

I was talking to my 70 year old female neighbour today. I noticed the mattock, long handled secateurs and weed spray on her quad bike. She had spent the day controlling biddy bush, wattles and serrated tussock. We started talking about weed control and both came to the agreement that you cant beat it only control it. I remember when her 80 plus mother use to control the weeds on her property with just a mattock. She done a pretty good job of it. Certainly better than I was doing.

Also I noticed that Ozhunter was another Bathurst boy with similar interest and views to myself.

I met a bloke at Kilmore two years ago who has since passed
away. He said he kept his "Chinese Scrub" for the cattle to
eat. At that stage he could no longer cope with the cattle
and the paddock had plenty of the scrub on it.

He said his neighbour also had some and decided to get of it
by ploughing it all in. Worst decision ever as the following year
his paddock was filled with it.

However I made a couple of pens out of the Chinese Scrub
a.k.a. Cassinia Arcuata and they turned out well. Lovely soft
pastel tones - very pleasing result.

Allan