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Is horsetail worse than ground elder?

Immesurably.

Ground elder is shallow rooted, and can be dealt with in several ways,
including digging. Horsetail can go down 30' or more. Horsetail has
been around for hundreds of millions of years; ground elder for only
millions or tens of millions (I don't know which).

Besides, ground elder is a good vegetable, when the young leaves are cooked.

Jack's son has the gout![*]


[*] A traditional misrepresentation of 'chacun a son gout' (many people
don't like it - I don't), plus ground elder is also known as goutweed
and was used to treat gout.


Regards,
Nick Maclaren.