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Horsetail - Help!
HyppyByker
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My neighbour is in a home now and here very old greenhouse collasped and was removed a few weeks ago. All over the place where it stood horsetail has grown and now it's coming though to my garden - even popped up in the greenhouse.
2 q's - how do I treat it on my side and what do I ask them to do about such a huge infestation next door.
They strimmed it this week and I have a feeling you might tell me this is the worst thing to do!
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I'm fairly sure there's a thread on this weed somewhere already, although I haven't worked out how to search the forum yet.
Have a nose round see if you can find it.
Horsetail/Marestail is as old as the hills and sounds a complete pain to deal with, good luck with it.
Cutting it down will do nothing to control it. You need to bruise it and then spray with a glyphosate-based weedkiller, probably more than once.
Where you have it attempting to invade, you could try digging it out as it's effectively a runner,and then think about putting a barrier in the way. We had it come up in our garage once, but a spray of weedkiller and it never came back.
a previous thread
http://www.gardenersworld.com/forum/problem-solving/the-dreaded-marestail--how-do-i-get-rid/4523.html
and another one
http://www.gardenersworld.com/forum/problem-solving/horsetail/3825.html
There is a search facilty at the top of the page
Thanx all
Have posted on the second of sotongeoff suggested threads of a product recommened to me on the BBC Message Board last year - hope this might work
That's brilliant! I wondered why their lawn wasn't affected - that must be it.
Cheers asperge
Hello HyppyByker,
Have looked at how to control marestail / field horsetail in our problems section. It's tricky stuff but you can use glyphosate, and now's the time to do it.
Emma
gardenersworld.com team