Your message made me smilevas i has been doing a similar thing, until i was recommended a product callled Pure Reap from a shop called Chemigro which is a different weedkiller to glyphosate amd much more effective. It really does the trick!!! I was soooo pleased as i been trying to get on top of this wretched weed for years - the more i tried to gt rid of it the faster it seemed to grow! Now ive found this i want everyone to share in this andcto know that there is life after marestail
As its name suggests it is a weed of fields as well as gardens. Farmers control it with weedkillers and regular cultivation - I've never heard of a field going out of production because of it.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Has anyone experience of marestail being controlled with strong glycosphate and using a surfactant like washing up liquid or Iso Propyl alcohol to allow the chemical in. My allotment has always had it since my father in laws days and wonder whether anyone has had success - if so can we have the recipie
Scottish Waterways Trust has created a sensory garden in Auchinstarrey Marina next to the town of Kilsyth. The garden creation was funded and the work carried out by volunteers assisted by excellent gardeners who gave up their working time to assist. The planting areas are maintained by volunteers from the local areas and 16 to 24 year olds who are working on getting into the work environment and facilitated by Scottish Waterways Trust. The planting areas have now got a heavy dose of this horsetail weed. We need to devise a plan to get the weed out but after reading the comments already posted it may well be too late for some of the planting areas. I have no idea what to do so here I am looking for advice. At present the worse areas are being targeted for digging out and starting again. BUT if the weed has survived dinosaurs, ice age, volcanic action and probably nuclear rays from the sun I am not confident I will see the back of this problem. Looking for advice
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Hi Monica
Your message made me smilevas i has been doing a similar thing, until i was recommended a product callled Pure Reap from a shop called Chemigro which is a different weedkiller to glyphosate amd much more effective. It really does the trick!!! I was soooo pleased as i been trying to get on top of this wretched weed for years - the more i tried to gt rid of it the faster it seemed to grow! Now ive found this i want everyone to share in this andcto know that there is life after marestail
Happy days
Digging up old threads to post an advert. What will they think of next
In the sticks near Peterborough
lol nutcutlet: I was thinking the same. Shame on you Mabel and your shameless advertising.
Advertising on an evening to get maximum exposure?
Pure Reap - Pure #**# more like....
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
Just keep on hoeing.
As its name suggests it is a weed of fields as well as gardens. Farmers control it with weedkillers and regular cultivation - I've never heard of a field going out of production because of it.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Has anyone experience of marestail being controlled with strong glycosphate and using a surfactant like washing up liquid or Iso Propyl alcohol to allow the chemical in. My allotment has always had it since my father in laws days and wonder whether anyone has had success - if so can we have the recipie
Scottish Waterways Trust has created a sensory garden in Auchinstarrey Marina next to the town of Kilsyth. The garden creation was funded and the work carried out by volunteers assisted by excellent gardeners who gave up their working time to assist. The planting areas are maintained by volunteers from the local areas and 16 to 24 year olds who are working on getting into the work environment and facilitated by Scottish Waterways Trust. The planting areas have now got a heavy dose of this horsetail weed. We need to devise a plan to get the weed out but after reading the comments already posted it may well be too late for some of the planting areas. I have no idea what to do so here I am looking for advice. At present the worse areas are being targeted for digging out and starting again. BUT if the weed has survived dinosaurs, ice age, volcanic action and probably nuclear rays from the sun I am not confident I will see the back of this problem. Looking for advice