"martin" wrote in message
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On 24 May 2004 13:17:35 GMT, emon (Rhiannon S)
wrote:

Subject: mares tail
From: Judith Lea
Date: 24/05/2004 14:08 GMT Daylight Time
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Help, I have sprayed twice with Roundup - it is becoming very
invasive -
any suggestions?

Move house?

Ok, on a slightly more practical note then, mares tail is almost
impossible to
kill and doesn't absorb roundup like most plants

Somebody, Franz?, said that if you trample on the part above the
surface first then the mares tails will absorb Roundup

Not guilty.
Marestail is ineradicable. I fought it for 11 years in one garden
without winning.

(I'm sure someone here will be
able to give the scientific explanation for this).

It's got a waxy surface that repels liquids.


The only way to reduce mares tail is to keep digging it up, you'll
never get
rid of it, but if you keep at it, an hour or so a day, you reduce
it's
visibility.

forever?

Franz