That's interesting!! Would you call chicken manure heavily fertilized??
No this is not a trick question, but the reason I ask is because that is what I applied in August of 2008.
I don't feel like I can actually give you a solution, but will share my similar experience.
I was grazing a paddock which looked absolutely great (bud stage) grasses and legumes, but the cows bellered day and night. I even had 3 week old calves (4 of them) which ended up being lame after 3...
I have the same thing. My cows will clean a canandian thistle patch from the top clear down to a stubble. Its interesting to watch as even the calves will eat them by the time they are a few weeks old. Also will clean up any burdock and horse weed the can get a hold of, as a matter of fact this...
Man I just can't emagine how that would be to have a drought like that, my heart goes out to you 1982 vett.
Here I have personally never lived through one of those. We may have a dry spell but nothing like this. As for this year my pastures are getting ahead of me, I have grass which I am...
I will pass on a tip to kill thistles which I just learned about in the last two weeks.
This is what the old fella told me.
5 drops of kerosene in the top right into the heart of the plant and it will kill it from the top down plus go right on down into the root system and wipe it out as well...
That may be true. I had thought it seemed like if I didn't rinse them with pure water after the soda mixture, it would not come back as fast. Just my observation I guess.