Older than the dinosaurs, some 300 million years it's been going and thriving. I've admired its tenacity for many years. At least now it doesn't grow quite as tall and strong as it did in the Carboniferous
Weird question but do they smell? When I say smell, I don't mean fragrantly scented I mean like feet!! I've often noticed a smell of feet or damp or something not very nice when weeding them and my neighbour's nephew asked if next door's smoked cannabis - which we don't but she also mentioned that other people noticed "a smell" in the general area of the horsetail.
There was a horrid smell when I doused them in SBK last year and they went black. Has anyone else noticed this? After reading this thread I was thinking dinosaur poo might smell like that ha ha
tetley do you have frittilaria imperialis planted in the area ? as that smells reaaly strongly of cannabis i have three bulbs, two are underground as i broke the foilage off by mistake but i can still smell the bulbs and i have one that has grown, the smell is really strong
Mare`s tail you will never be rid of it. Fifty odd years ago my husband and I started a garden near the sea side, soft sandy soil, it was everywhere. We gradually got rid of it by digging it out, or so we thought. These last few years I noticed it in the soil. You think you have it but there is always a little bit left to reproduce. Just persevere by digging.
I hope I have fritillary, it would be nice if I have. I am in my first year in the garden and it was loaded with stuff a few years ago so maybe? If it comes up then there's one thing explained, thanks sanjy.
Just reading about it Glenys and it's Equisetum that I've got which is Horsetail Fern often confusingly called Mare's Tail by some and not Hippuris which grows by water - confusingly the previous people had a pond near this area. They're both a nightmare weed though.
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Awful little blighter, it will grow anywhere, I had it coming through concrete drive and tarmac path
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It is well nestled into the cracks in my concrete patio - just gave it a spray of SBK today (I only use chemicals on the path areas)
I've read they survived the ice age and roots have been found 300m, yes 3 hundred metres underground.
Good luck.
Older than the dinosaurs, some 300 million years it's been going and thriving. I've admired its tenacity for many years. At least now it doesn't grow quite as tall and strong as it did in the Carboniferous
Weird question but do they smell? When I say smell, I don't mean fragrantly scented I mean like feet!! I've often noticed a smell of feet or damp or something not very nice when weeding them and my neighbour's nephew asked if next door's smoked cannabis - which we don't but she also mentioned that other people noticed "a smell" in the general area of the horsetail.
There was a horrid smell when I doused them in SBK last year and they went black. Has anyone else noticed this? After reading this thread I was thinking dinosaur poo might smell like that ha ha
tetley do you have frittilaria imperialis planted in the area ? as that smells reaaly strongly of cannabis i have three bulbs, two are underground as i broke the foilage off by mistake but i can still smell the bulbs and i have one that has grown, the smell is really strong
Mare`s tail you will never be rid of it. Fifty odd years ago my husband and I started a garden near the sea side, soft sandy soil, it was everywhere. We gradually got rid of it by digging it out, or so we thought. These last few years I noticed it in the soil. You think you have it but there is always a little bit left to reproduce. Just persevere by digging.
I hope I have fritillary, it would be nice if I have. I am in my first year in the garden and it was loaded with stuff a few years ago so maybe? If it comes up then there's one thing explained, thanks sanjy.
Just reading about it Glenys and it's Equisetum that I've got which is Horsetail Fern often confusingly called Mare's Tail by some and not Hippuris which grows by water - confusingly the previous people had a pond near this area. They're both a nightmare weed though.
I have just been on You Tube, apparently the "weed has good properties for health , you can drink it as a tea it contains silica. Do not eat it raw.
If it is so invasive and tough, why is it not everywhere?
I can only assume it is out competed, since it survives in sandy and clay soil. I read somewhere that turnips deter it.