{"id":2530,"date":"2020-06-24T01:28:38","date_gmt":"2020-06-24T01:28:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fsccmn.com\/?p=2530"},"modified":"2020-06-24T01:28:38","modified_gmt":"2020-06-24T01:28:38","slug":"weed-focus-stinking-roger","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fsccmn.com\/?p=2530","title":{"rendered":"Weed Focus &#8211; Stinking Roger"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_2532\" style=\"width: 215px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2532\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-2532 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/www.fsccmn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Stinking-Roger-photo-205x300.png\" alt=\"Stinking Roger or Tagetes minuta in flower\" width=\"205\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/fsccmn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Stinking-Roger-photo-205x300.png 205w, https:\/\/fsccmn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Stinking-Roger-photo-768x1123.png 768w, https:\/\/fsccmn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Stinking-Roger-photo-700x1024.png 700w, https:\/\/fsccmn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Stinking-Roger-photo.png 844w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 205px) 100vw, 205px\" \/><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-2532\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Stinking Roger (Tagetes minuta) Photo: J Miles &amp; M Campbell<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Stinking Roger has had a great season so far this year. It has clearly taken advantage of bare ground created by drought and fire, followed by the little bit of rain we&#8217;ve had since January. You&#8217;ll recognise this weed by its pungent &#8216;marigold&#8217; smell.<\/p>\n<p>Best controls are hand pulling before flowering aimed at reducing the seed bank left in the soil. This will require follow up every season.<\/p>\n<p>If plants have already flowered and formed seed,\u00a0cut and bag heads for burning or solarising\u00a0in plastic to kill the seed.<\/p>\n<p>If the areas are too big to hand pull, an application of a broadleaf selective herbicide can be used.\u00a0Visit your local agricultural supplier for advice.<\/p>\n<p>As always, encouraging pasture growth to minimise bare ground will help reduce the incidence of common weeds like this.<\/p>\n<p>For more information and photos visit <a href=\"https:\/\/atlasoflife.org.au\/naturemaprnews\/2018\/4\/1\/keep-an-eye-out-for-stinking-roger\" target=\"_blank\" data-wpel-link=\"external\" rel=\"external noopener noreferrer\">this feature on the Atlas of Life<\/a>.<\/p>\n<h6>Thanks to Jamie Dixon-Keay from BVSC for information and to landholders who asked for advice on control methods.<\/h6>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Stinking Roger has had a great season so far this year. It has clearly taken advantage of bare ground created by drought and fire, followed by the little bit of rain we&#8217;ve had since January. You&#8217;ll recognise this weed by its pungent &#8216;marigold&#8217; smell. Best controls are hand pulling before flowering aimed at reducing the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2532,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[9,4,37],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fsccmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2530"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fsccmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fsccmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fsccmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fsccmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2530"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/fsccmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2530\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2533,"href":"https:\/\/fsccmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2530\/revisions\/2533"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fsccmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2532"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fsccmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2530"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fsccmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2530"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fsccmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2530"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}