I had no marestail just grass, clover, docks and dandelions. As I said
whenever a perenial weed showed I dug the whole thing out.

Bob



"Jane Ransom" wrote in message
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In article , Bob
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This is the way I sorted out my last house, I rotovated the lot with a
large
hired machine which went down about 18 inches.

I know a guy who managed to spread marestail over his whole garden by
using this method. I would suggest that the pernicious weed roots must
be removed before rotovating or the rotovating process will just chop
them so that there will, in the end, be a helluva lot more