There are two types of Rushes. One that thrives on wet and therefore poorly drained land. And the other is called Poverty Rushes, these grow on acidic land which has suffered from bad husbandry in other words never been mucked properly, limed and never had any weed control. Rushes only grow when land is neglected to a greater or lesser extent.
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@@diarmuidoc9427 It sounds like you have poverty rushes and poor drainage to me. Soil test your land and add lime as needed and do some drainage. Rushes if mown before they flower can be dried like hay and used for bedding instead of straw. But avoid cutting when they have flowered or you will end up with seeds going back onto your land.
Jondingle said it cut them in august if you can get on the land chop them again before Christmas or graze sheep on the land if you are into spraying in springtime do it just knock them back with cutting or sheep til the grass can dominate them again and the fertiliser and lime gets workin try not to let them dominate they fine for bedding even some say in seed if it is really deep and the heat kill the seed and that is the best fertiliser to put back on farmyard manure
