Mares tail

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• Dovefromabove Posts: 88,147

  May 2021

  Lots of old threads with advice here 
  https://forum.gardenersworld.com/search?Search=Horsetail
  
  if you tell us 
  

  more about the Horsetail (also known as marestail /Equisetum) in your garden we may be able to give more specific advice. 

  
  Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
  
  
  
  
  
  

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• Mr. Vine Eye Posts: 2,394

  May 2021

  In borders - Best thing is smothering the ground with card and mulch and keeping on top of it that way. Couple years and it’ll have been smothered but you we’re still able that plant and use the garden in the meantime.
  
  if that’s not feasible then remove it with as much root as possible regularly and it’ll weaken over time. Eventually just becoming any other weed really that you have to get at regularly.
  
  In grass, mowing will keep it in check.

  East Yorkshire

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