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dabzy65dabzy65 Posts: 3
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I'm struggling find a treatment for mares tail ...any help please

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  • FairygirlFairygirl Posts: 55,117
    So do most people  :)
    All you can do is keep on top of it by hoeing, or pulling it out, or you can bruise the foliage and apply weedkiller, but you'll have to do that regularly too.  :)
    It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....



    I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
  • dabzy65dabzy65 Posts: 3
    Ok ty for the swift response
  • ObelixxObelixx Posts: 30,090
    Its roots go down very deep but will weaken if you keep the bits above the ground hoed off regularly and especially before the release any spores to reproduce themselves.

    Make sure you don't put any hoed material on the compost pile or the green bin unless you've left them out in the sun to dry out completely for a couple of weeks.

    You can, if you wish, make a "tea" with them by soaking the stems in a bucket of water with the lid on for a couple of weeks.  Strain at the end and then dilute to use as a fungicidal spray.  It's good against seedling damping off, peach leaf curl, powdery mildew and black spot apparently.
    Vendée - 20kms from Atlantic coast.
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    Plato
  • dabzy65dabzy65 Posts: 3
    Ty very much obelisk very much appreciated 
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