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Talkback: Field horsetail

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I'll try this as I have horsetail every where. I sprayed the horsetail and other weeds in the cracks of the pavement this spring with a weed killer. This caused all the weeds to die except for the horsetail which seem is bigger and healthier without any other competition. It is now spreading to the lawn. I'll never get rid of it completely as it is coming in from the neighbour's garden.
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  • jaye_85jaye_85 Posts: 1
    I've got a big problem with this weed aswell as all my neighbours. I just keep picking at it, making sure I grab the very bottom of the stem otherwise it just breaks off! All my neighbours are elderly and this one couple can't seem to look after their garden properly so that doesn't help. I even offered to weed their garden once a fortnight during the summer but they're not interested. So the war goes on...
  • LuigiLuigi Posts: 2
    Ive got a few more tests to do and then I will be going to companies to see if they are interested in selling my product.
    Sorry i cant tell you what it is ive been working on this for the last ten years and now im coming to the final stages to help all you by putting it on the market.
    Many thanks Luigi
  • rodwayrodway Posts: 2
    reserveing comment until i have had time to see how it works
  • tramptramp Posts: 1
    Ammonium Sulfamate (compost accelerator) seems to kill horsetail pretty effectively, just try not to spill it or overspray onto anything else green!
  • ebowerebower Posts: 1
    We have lived in our house for some 30 years and have waged battle with mares tails all that time and they still come back. Having tried every weed killer and digging them up they still come back as strong as ever!
  • rodwayrodway Posts: 2
    when lavatera has finished flowering. is it possible to move them to another part of garden ? and if so when to do this
  • LuigiLuigi Posts: 2
    Hi all with the problem with horse tail weeds, ive made a weed killer that will kill the weed from the tip to the root even if it rains it will still work not like other weed killers that wash away the weed killer.
    Ive mixed it with water and it still kills it within a week you can see them dying
  • Alma RigbyAlma Rigby Posts: 1

    Vinager works a treat!

  • Tropical SamTropical Sam Posts: 1,488

    The problem with Marestail is that it has a tough outer coating that resists herbicides. The thing to do is to get 2 stones and mush the Marestail up. That opens it up to herbicides and you can kill and eradicate it. Undiluted vinegar may work!

  • BookertooBookertoo Posts: 1,306

    Mares tail is one of the hardiest and most long lived plants there is.  We live in a mining area, the roots are often seen several meters down in the pits, those liquorice look stems are quite distinctive.  It was grazed upon by dinosaurs, we're not going to beat it!  You can keep it slightly under control by regularly chopping its head off, even that doesn't kill it but usually keeps it small enough so you can almost ignore it.

    Sadly we had to give up an allotment because of it, there was just a solid mass of root over the whole area, and nothing was possible to do with it.

    If it is in a small area, chopping will just about keep it in check - you will I'm sorry to say just have to learn to live with it and accept this is a battle you are not going to win completely. 

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