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Field Horsetail
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Posted by mrhoe (My Page) on Sun, Sep 3, 06 at 17:38
| I've seem to have the worlds most stubborn weed.Field Horsetail (Equisetum arvense).Having tried the commercial weed killers ,Glyphosate etc,I hoped the good people of the web may have an answer to getting rid of this very invasive weed. |
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RE: Field Horsetail
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| Glyphosate has some effect, limited because of the waxy surface of the horsetails and because of some resistance. Try repeated applications a week apart. Or look for Casoron G4 which is supposed to be very effective in one treatment, although I've not tried it. The spores will persist and you will have a problem for a number of years. |
RE: Field Horsetail
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i think shrubs n bulbs is right the only thing you can do is keep at it. you can try bruising the plants with a stick before application because the leaf surface is resistant to penitration and try to get really good coverage of the foliage with the spray.
good luck |
RE: Field Horsetail
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We had a bed at work infested with marestail last year, the whole area was covered so it looked almost like a lawn!!
Well just about this time last year i carefully walked over it all, gently bruising the stems, its actually quite brittle so you dont want to go too heavy handed and snap the stems. I then sprayed the whole area with glyphosate and sat waited........seemed to get a good "kill" so start of this year as marestail likes wet ground I deeply dug over the bed and weeded out as much of the roots as i came across, thankfully 99% of the roots i found were dead, however we left the bed empty all this year and amazingly only found one shoot coming up in a corner so I'm hoping we have tamed it. |
RE: Field Horsetail
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| "We had a bed at work infested with marestail last year" Marestail is a completely different plant (Hippuris vulgaris) - what applies to that won't necessarily apply to horsetails Resin |
RE: Field Horsetail
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| Pineresin, while Marestail/Hippuris vulgaris is indeed a completely different plant, the name is very often misapplied to Horsetail. I'm fairly positive that Nbpen's bed of marestail was Equisetum rather than Hippuris as s/he walked over it. Hippuris grows in ponds. Unless there's something very special about Nbpen... |
RE: Field Horsetail
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| http://www.gardenadvice.co.uk/howto/gardenplants/weeds/index.html Equisetum arvense, common names: marestail, horsetail.
Thats why plants get latin names to stop this sort of misunderstanding. I read Equisetum arvense in the original post and knew exactly what the plant was, I was just using "my" name for it: marestail. |
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