No football today so we got to have a lie-in. Took the boys into town to get tools to control noxious weeds. After lunch we went to try them out. Used the machete on the gorse, it is very invasive and little plants are springing up in all the pastures. Eric the chemist tells me that the only way to defeat the weeds is to poison them. Buring gorse makes it more fertile apparently.
Being pretty convinced that chemical control of weeds is a "bad idea" I am loath to start spraying now. I have managed to control a whole host of nasties on my various allotments: couch grass, bindweed, thistles etc. The situation here is a bit different, different country, climate and a rather larger scale, but I want to try to do without the herbicides. If anyone out there can give me some ideas I am listening! The main problems are gorse, tobacco plant and pampas grass.
Eric saved a goldfinch from the jaws of death. Moe had this lovely bird firmly gripped and Eric chased her for a good 10 minutes before she would let it go. He then nursed it back to health and let it go at our new place. It makes a change for Eric to be so concerned about saving life as he has recently been obsessed about methods of killing animals.
