It’s not all hugging ponies and sheep around here. Sometimes we have to do real work.
And today it was pulling ragwort, a job I loathe because it hurts my back. I have been putting it off all summer but realised I must just get on and do it.
Daisy was already out there.
She had brought some big bin bags with her so I took one and found a patch and went to work.
We each filled a bag when it started to drizzle. So we decided to fill one more between us and then call it a day. There is absolutely nothing less fun than ragworting in drizzle.
Between us, we filled our three bags.
I had brought the Eggbox over so we didn’t have to lug the full bags (to take to the tip later) and I let Daisy drive it home – her first time off-roading with the diff (open differential) on. I think she enjoyed it. I love off-roading and that is the Eggbox’s one great talent.
I will probably go back to the field and do some more ragworting another day. Don’t tell me about the ragwort forks because I don’t get on with them. God, I hate pulling ragwort. It’s such an evil tenacious plant with no value in my life at all.
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Reading your blog has taught me so much that I was blissfully unaware of, in this case, ragwort. First off, talk about back breaking work because it appears to grow only knee high & it spreads everywhere. And my gosh, it’s in the daisy family which means it would spread so easily. Now I wonder if it has a noxious smell to keep animals from eating it, but as a biennial, it would appear differently in the two years & pollinators would love it as a daisy. However, I am glad to see that Pepper is indeed on duty giving moral support. So sorry that it grows on your land & that it is so toxic.
No experience with ragwort (the above comment is interesting), anyway, I feel your pain, invasives are so hard to deal with.