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Started by Raider Bill, September 04, 2015, 12:37:44 PM

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Raider Bill

My pond is getting overrun by cattails.

Deer, dogs and turkeys drink the water so I need something to knock out the cattails without hurting the critters.

Any ideas?
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SwampDonkey

Can't help you out. Don't know what would be safe. But I like cattails.  ;)

In the winter time the chickadees dig into the heads and find bugs for food. ;)

Soak the heads in diesel, make good torches to burn up web worms and armyworm nests. Keep away from dozers. ;D
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sprucebunny

Some kinds, the roots are edible and were ground up and made into ??? by Native Americans.
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JohnW

Put on high rubber boots and dig them out with a shovel.  It might take two or three years to get the last little bit of them.

Jeff

I don't think it is possible to shovel them out at least in this part of the country.  If you dig a pond, and put a fence around it, within two years, yer going to have cattails.  I think the secret it water depth. Make that shovel a backhoe and dig the shoreline deeper. I think anything over 18" and the cattails wont grow.
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SwampDonkey

I leave a little bunch out in the ditch in front of the house. I cut them off when the frost has killed them. It's either cattails or horsetails, I'll take the cattails. :D
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WDH

Contact the Tennessee Wildlife Resources Agency.  They will have a recommendation. 
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billporterfield

Find a family of muskrats, they will clean the catails and dig holes in the pound
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Clark

I have heard that to control broad leaved cattails, you can cut them off just below the water line when they are growing. Apparently that will kill them. Seems to good to be true.

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goose63

Quote from: billporterfield on September 05, 2015, 06:58:15 AM
Find a family of muskrats, they will clean the catails and dig holes in the pound
bill
Muskrats round here don't build mounds any more thy tunnel under the roads and that's not good
goose
if you find your self in a deep hole stop digging
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bucknwfl

Rodeo or any other aquatic glyphosate will work. It will take a couple of seasons because there are roots and seeds that have not sprouted yet.  It is easy to find it is basically an aquatic version of round up.  It will not hurt the critters either
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WV Mountaineer

Once you figure out how to kill them, figure out how to stop the sedimentation causing them and, you will solve your problem for the future.  Good luck and God bless
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mesquite buckeye

During the drought a couple years ago the pond level dropped and the cattails died.
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Banjo picker

I wonder if good ole copper sulfate would knock them back...it will kill alge. Banjo
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4x4American

If you get on a little rowboat, you can just pluck them out they pull out easily.  Reach down as low as you can on them and give a tug.  They'll come.  As far as wiping them out completely, not sure!
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