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rustred

rustred

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ok here's one for you. other day when cutting hay i noticed cattails growing in what was wet spots. where in the heck did those seeds come
from? never saw cattails on this farm years ago. so is it some prehistoric seed in the ground that has come alive, from the continent being
under water for all those millions of years. humm.
 
ya i figured the fuzz blowing in the wind, but why all of a sudden in the last few years they seam to be popping up . sure hope they dont get as bad as dandelions , see some fields totally yellow and that fuzz infecting every farmer around. never hear of the county sending warnings out for that. guess it keeps the honey man happy. plus speaking of fuzz the yard here is white from them dam black poplar fuzzy's. gets into everything it can even the closed garage.
 
Invasive species. Has taken over a lot of the wetlands in western minn. Has narrow green leaves , smaller dog and gets right in land that is normally disturbed now and then if it is wet for a short time.

Gets so thick a green wing teal can't even find a place to set down in when in water. Google it.
 
Cattail seeds not only blow in the wind, they stick to birds and animal fir getting transferred to even new lakes. Our family lake was constructed in 1967 and was 5 miles fromthe nearest cattail patch. It took one season to get a start, and is now ringed in cattails we mow them off in areas where we put in boats, but poisoning them is not happening. Jim
 
Cattails are some of the best water born pollution filters that mother nature has to offer. Given the gradual growth of temperature change, the species normal growth range is slowly moving in to new territory further north.
 
Cattails are some of the best water born pollution filters that mother nature has to offer. Given the gradual growth of temperature change, the species normal growth range is slowly moving in to new territory further north. They tend to grow at the edge of the water body so their root system can filter surface water entering the water body.
 
i have heard that cattails growing can make a piece of ground declared a wet land . you may wantto nip it in the bud! here is a link
poke here
 
(quoted from post at 14:00:53 06/24/21) Invasive species. Has taken over a lot of the wetlands in western minn. Has narrow green leaves , smaller dog and gets right in land that is normally disturbed now and then if it is wet for a short time.

Gets so thick a green wing teal can't even find a place to set down in when in water. Google it.
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Only one or two types of cattails are considered invasive. The others are native species.
 
Yep, when I was a Boy Scout 50 years ago we would be out on camping trips and would eat cattail roots as well as other wild plants that were listed in our books along with supervision of our scout leaders. I miss being young !
 
It's kind of like cottonwood. The seeds can drift for miles with a good breeze.

The only cattails I have on my place have four legs attached.
 
"Catt Plex" has worked for me without any problems. I treated some pond areas and left some untreated. Had to repeat about 15 years later. My pond water is very clean and has stayed that way. No fish kills or anything like that.

Just my experience.
 
I think I am further North than most of you guys and we have had cat tails growing here as long as I can remember. They are a fact of life in pothole country. Wet years when you can't work the ground they will take over. When a dry year comes along, burn them off and plant a crop. If you are lucky and a downpour does not drown out the crop, you can grow something. There are a lot of former cat tail acres here now growing cash crops since we have been dry for a couple of years.
 
Supposedly the entire plant is edible, at least the green supple parts and roots/rhizome.

I read that it is considered a perfect survival food in a wilderness or isolated area.
 
(quoted from post at 16:54:57 06/24/21) ok here's one for you. other day when cutting hay i noticed cattails growing in what was wet spots. where in the heck did those seeds come
from? never saw cattails on this farm years ago. so is it some prehistoric seed in the ground that has come alive, from the continent being
under water for all those millions of years. humm.
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Did a little more research on the cattails since the land my inlaws used to own is now DNR land and the 70 of the 167 acres that was low land but plowed most years is now solid cattails in less than 15 years.

The DNR informed me they tried spraying it some years ago but it was too far advanced already. It appears that the narrow leaf and wide leaf species hybernize and form a variety that just plum takes over all vegetation.

The slough a quarter mile away across the road has had cattails around the open water of over 50 acres for as long as I can remember and it still has open water.

I seems to invade land that has been disturbed and not under water constantly . At any rate it is just a big water filter now I guess as no water fowl activity and impassable even when frozen solid in winter .

Every little low spot on the higher ground is now filled in with these cattails also and spreading.
 
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