Big Muddy rancher
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Jinglebob said:I wonder if winterfat and sweet sage are the same thing?
I read that it's a decreaser, so I imagine anyplace that had hard grazing, it would get crowded out. I think we may have a little.
We have silver sage and sage wort of several kinds. Seems like rotational intensive grazing, can cut all the sages back a little and I know the sheep will weed out about any kind of woody plant around here, pretty hard.
I'd run some sheep, just to clean up some pastures, if it wasn't such a cost and pain to fence for them. Wish I could get me a cheap sheep herder.
Winter fat has no sage like smell. The leaves edges turn to the back of the leaves and they have a center line running down the back of the leaf. It is a decreaser but I have seen it growing with Blue gramma which is a increaser in this area. It's called cow candy, the deer like it as well.