Spring seems to be here already - all the plants seem to think so. I've been spraying weeds, when it hasn't been too windy as it was today. So today I spent trying to control the Huisache in the 25 acre cow pasture. It has to be killed by coating each lower trunk with a penetrating herbicide; it's called a basal treatment technique. Lots of walking. If you mow the Huisache it multiplies like the sorcerer's apprentice's broom. Fortunately it is only really a problem in that one pasture. The horse paddocks have an issue with buttercups which need to be sprayed before they bloom - if the wind ever pipes down - and all the cow pastures need to be sprayed to reduce the amount of clover. I'm sure all the non-farmers now think I am poisoning the planet, but farming without herbicides would be impossible for me with our long growing season.
