Horsetails - Page 2

**Maggy** · 13-05-2011, 19:54

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Originally Posted by danielf

http://www.allotment.org.uk/articles...What_to_do.php

I love the bit about it growing a foot behind your back.

Anything I've ever painted onto the leaves has failed to work down into the roots as the roots are sooooo damned looooong.

Periwinkle is almost as bad.

danielf · 13-05-2011, 20:01

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Originally Posted by Maggy J

I love the bit about it growing a foot behind your back.

Anything I've ever painted onto the leaves has failed to work down into the roots as the roots are sooooo damned looooong.

Periwinkle is almost as bad.

Perhaps that's why you need to re-apply?

Some tips here. Not sure if they're any good. I never had to deal with the stuff.

http://www.allotments-uk.com/forum/t...?TOPIC_ID=3983

Caff · 13-05-2011, 20:12

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Originally Posted by Taf

It's like raspberry roots on steroids with a miner's helmet.

Sorry to giggle - but I know what you mean.
The only thing that worked for me was tenacity and vigilence at all times - and be gentle with the b***** roots. They WILL disappear eventually.
I wonder if a flame thrower would work quicker?

Mick Fisher · 13-05-2011, 20:33

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Originally Posted by Maggy J

So anyone got a cure for convolvulus?I'm sick of the stuff and no amount of weeding gets rid of it.Not found ANYTHING that kills it off right down into the roots.

For years I dug it out of mine and my neighbours garden only to find it return the next year.

Then we got rid of the old chain link fencing for concrete posts and panels. After digging it out it has never returned?

My theory is, if it has nothing to climb it goes elsewhere.

**Maggy** · 13-05-2011, 20:48

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Originally Posted by Mick Fisher

For years I dug it out of mine and my neighbours garden only to find it return the next year.

Then we got rid of the old chain link fencing for concrete posts and panels. After digging it out it has never returned?

My theory is, if it has nothing to climb it goes elsewhere.

So that means removing all the bushes,trees and other plants..Not much point in having a garden really.

Personally IF it was up to me I'd cover the lawn with gravel and have a Japanese garden.Only pebbles,sand,statues and plants only in pots and a rake to organise a Zen garden.

danielf · 13-05-2011, 21:23

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Originally Posted by Maggy J

So that means removing all the bushes,trees and other plants..Not much point in having a garden really.

Personally IF it was up to me I'd cover the lawn with gravel and have a Japanese garden.Only pebbles,sand,statues and plants only in pots and a rake to organise a Zen garden.

Wimp!

Mick Fisher · 14-05-2011, 13:56

Quote:

Originally Posted by Maggy J

So that means removing all the bushes,trees and other plants..Not much point in having a garden really.

Personally IF it was up to me I'd cover the lawn with gravel and have a Japanese garden.Only pebbles,sand,statues and plants only in pots and a rake to organise a Zen garden.

Probably

but I'm not much of a gardener anyway, just wanted to keep it tidy and without that hideous weed. Once the suspect fencing went there was only a small tree left in mine and nothing in the neighbours.

But this was years ago. Since then I have a new neighbour who has filled her garden with trees and shrubs and my small tree has been blown down and logged. Still no sign of the weed returning.

Taf · 14-05-2011, 14:48

Bindweed is coming through our board fence from next door too...

I just point the tip back into his side of the boundary...

And as for dandelions... he let both his lawns turn into golden fields of them and decided to mow AFTER the seed heads had dried... so we'll all be pulling dandelions soon enough too...

It's the Typhoid Mary of gardens.

Caff · 14-05-2011, 14:55

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Originally Posted by Taf

Bindweed is coming through our board fence from next door too...

I just point the tip back into his side of the boundary...

And as for dandelions... he let both his lawns turn into golden fields of them and decided to mow AFTER the seed heads had dried... so we'll all be pulling dandelions soon enough too...

It's the Typhoid Mary of gardens.

They make great soup and don't make you wet the bed.

The roots are a bit of a devil though.
Squirrels and their hoarding habbits - nightmare.And I don't have a good recipe or want to find one. That's all I'm going to say

Taf · 15-05-2011, 14:23

We had a bit of a quiet chat about it last evening.

He was soooooooo disheartened by the fact that it all grows back despite his best efforts (sic) that I again offered my help. He was getting severe grief about it all from his neighbour the other side which had severly strained their long good neighbourliness.

Glyphosate weedkiller ordered from eBay, permission to use it granted. But I told him that he would have to put a bit of effort in too. He just seemed glad of help to sort it out, and has promised to pay any costs.

Kymmy · 15-05-2011, 14:23

Sounds good and hopefully will cure the problem

danielf · 15-05-2011, 14:25

Result!

joglynne · 15-05-2011, 15:02

Well done Taf.

Taf · 15-05-2011, 16:26

I think he preferred my softly-softly approach to the constant moaning he was getting from his other neighbours.

Ergo · 15-05-2011, 18:51

One method that I have used to kill horsetail is:
aquire a syringe and needle (friendly nurse,doctor,or vet) and then inject Glyphosate weedkiller into the stem. This bypasses the silicon based outer protection layer.
It's quite time consuming but effective.