Good luck. The stuff busts up through the paved asphalt footpath between our neighborhood and the school.. it's fairly fresh, with no cracks. The horsetail heaves up the surface like a mole, and rears it's hydra head up through it's self-made hole. Do let us know how you get on with a bit of weed cloth and gravel.
IN THE 1980S WE BOUGHT A 1930S BUNGALOW AND THE NEXT DOOR NEIGHBOUR TOLD US THAT THE CRAZY PAVING PATIO WAS ORIGINAL.
WHEN WE DUG IT UP, THERE WERE 50 YEARS' WORTH OF BLACK RHIZOMES, COILED ROUND AND ROUND EACH OTHER IN A 6" DEEP FRENZY, ALL WAITING FOR THEIR MOMENT IN THE SUN.
Had another thought, before you lay new membrane try a weed burner over the pebbles (provided there is no plastic under them), rake over & re-burn every time you see one pop up. Same idea as Michealw1- no photosynthesis root will waken & die-eventually! Might cost a fortune in gas canisters though!!
I remember my Mum used to love it on gardeners question time when one of the panel used to say. "I would move if I was you" if they posed a particularly knotty question. Sounds like burning might not be such a good idea then.
This plant has been around for about 400+ million years. The world back then was a much hotter and unstable place than it is now, with fires, volcanoes and meteorites frequently ravaging the earth. Some plants to this day use fire as a means of natural pruning or reproduction.
Horsetails love fire so much that their Christmases all come at once if they're burned. They seem so canny that they anticipated Christmas would be invented at some point in the next few hundred million years
If you have Horsetails and want them to grow into an almighty sward, fire + wet soil + acidity will make your garden a shrine to these majestic dinosaurs.
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You can compost them, see the thread and comments
http://www.allotment-garden.org/garden-diary/1989/ammonium-sulphamate-weed-killer-banned/
'You must have some bread with it me duck!'
Good luck. The stuff busts up through the paved asphalt footpath between our neighborhood and the school.. it's fairly fresh, with no cracks. The horsetail heaves up the surface like a mole, and rears it's hydra head up through it's self-made hole. Do let us know how you get on with a bit of weed cloth and gravel.
Oh no - he hasn't crossed Joe Swift with Diarmuid Gavin has he. What horrors that hybrid could produce.
Wow... was dead after all that time? Surely?
Had another thought, before you lay new membrane try a weed burner over the pebbles (provided there is no plastic under them), rake over & re-burn every time you see one pop up. Same idea as Michealw1- no photosynthesis root will waken & die-eventually! Might cost a fortune in gas canisters though!!
We had a fire on a piece of land, which was alight for a couple of days where I hadn't noticed any horse hair growing but it is now...
It's also growing amongst my potatoes, so just don't know what to do at this moment in time... I suppose just make sure it doesn't set seed!
I remember my Mum used to love it on gardeners question time when one of the panel used to say. "I would move if I was you" if they posed a particularly knotty question. Sounds like burning might not be such a good idea then.
This plant has been around for about 400+ million years. The world back then was a much hotter and unstable place than it is now, with fires, volcanoes and meteorites frequently ravaging the earth. Some plants to this day use fire as a means of natural pruning or reproduction.
Horsetails love fire so much that their Christmases all come at once if they're burned. They seem so canny that they anticipated Christmas would be invented at some point in the next few hundred million years
If you have Horsetails and want them to grow into an almighty sward, fire + wet soil + acidity will make your garden a shrine to these majestic dinosaurs.
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Thanks for the information, it does sound like have the best natural habitat for something I would really rather not have - ho hum..
So on that basis lime sounds like a good plan, just not sure what veggies like it to grow in?
I have found a stem in a different place from where last years arose. It will be dealt with tomorrow .
'You must have some bread with it me duck!'