Go for the couch grass plot every time. My allotment has horsetail and
nearly 10 years of me attacking it just seems to have encouraged its spread
as even a tiny bit of root will grow. Couch was killed off in my first year
by a dose of glyohosate.

PW

"Mel" wrote in message
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Hi all, can you please help with my dilemma?

I have to choose between 2 allotments, both of which are in abandoned
states. One site absolutely full of horsetail, and I mean so
chock-a-block
that in some places I can hardly get a fork in for the roots. The other
site is full of couch grass and is very wet (I can hear the soil
squelching
when I walk on it).

It's between a rock and a hard place! Do I choose soggy couch grass or a
zillion horsetail?

Thanks.