On 2009-05-05 22:08:20 +0100, "Pete C" said:



Sacha wrote:
On 2009-05-05 21:27:48 +0100, Judith in France
said:

On May 5, 8:59 pm, Sacha wrote:
On 2009-05-05 19:15:44 +0100, "Pete C" said:





michael wrote:
We have quite a lot of horsetail on our allotments,and we give
this advice to plotholders.
1)In May/June whenever you arrive at your plot,spend 10 minutes
(obviously more at first)seeking out and digging up the horsetail
growth with small handfork.Horsetail needs light to grow and
continually removing it significantly weakens it.
2)In July/August start applying glysophate(strong mixture mixed up
with wallpaper paste so that it sticks to it).Applying it at the
end of the season is far far more effective than earlier,since
the plant is naturally sending back down into the roots-rather
than upwards as in Spring growth.

Several plotholders have removed horse tail in a couple of years
almost completely.This works.
Michael
Mmm, how does the paste get over the fact that the surface of
horsetail
is
waxy which to a large extent, prevents glysophate entering the
plant? :
)

Many people have posted here on many occasions that you bash and
bruise the horsetail to enable it to take in the poison. ;-)
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Exotic plants, shrubs & perennials
South Devon

Stomp and stamp on it, then treat it.

Judith

There's some kind of contradictiion in terms in there
somewhere....... ;-)) --

Not if the treat is nice

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Pete C
London UK (in naughty frame of mind)

Not if you're a horse tail - and just be glad I said 'tail' - also ini
naughty frame of mind. ;-)
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Sacha
www.hillhousenursery.com
Exotic plants, shrubs & perennials
South Devon