Chopped Carex

Last post 28-02-2008 12:51 PM by Plantman. 3 replies.

• 27/02/2008 09:21 PM
  mollythewitch Location: Joined on: 09 Oct 2006 Posts: 65	Reply | Contact I have just cut down my Carex elata because it was looking a bit motheaten. As sods law would have it, I then read the next day that sedge grasses shouldn't be hard pruned like this. Will it recover I wonder?

• 27/02/2008 09:23 PM	In reply to
  Digger Location: Northern UK Joined on: 18 Jul 2005 Posts: 5,230	Reply | Contact Hello Mollythewitch, I would wager that the carex should recover give a good nitrogen feed in springtime and it should bounce back digger Sage of the fells

• 27/02/2008 09:26 PM	In reply to
  mollythewitch Location: Joined on: 09 Oct 2006 Posts: 65	Reply | Contact Thanks Digger for such a prompt reply, I will do just that.

• 28/02/2008 12:51 PM	In reply to
  Plantman Location: North Yorkshire Joined on: 30 Jan 2008 Posts: 276	Reply | Contact I cut my Carex down every year by about 75%. I have never had a problem with them coming back. Plantman