Cultivating horsetail.

[haza1981]

The silicon in it is good for scouring pans as well!

On the subject of importing mares tail, I'm not so sure! Pernicious weeds have a habit of escaping and once you have it in your soil.......you'll ALWAYS have it.

There is none in either of my plots and thats the way I'd like to keep it. If I am given any veg/fruit plants from other plotholders I always examine the rootball thoroughly as it is rampant on our site!

I'm gonna sneak some on your plot

[gojiberry]

As far as I am aware marestail is an edible plant and in the middle ages was eaten. The down side is that the silica makes it very gritty. Not that I'm tempted to try it. I've been meaning to make a spray out of it for years but never got around to it.

Ian

[Snadger]

I'm gonna sneak some on your plot

You'll have to get past the barred gate,the rabid dog and the booby traps first! And if they don't get you, Sid Vicious the cockerel, will!

[gillian62]

Geoff Hamilton reckoned that spraying a seaweed solution on all his plants, as well as being a tonic, put a protective coating on the leaves?............. Something I've been meaning to try myself when I get arround to it!

I've had some seaweed soaking in a bucket of water for a couple of months now. Do you think I should dilute it before spraying or use it neat?

[Snadger]

I've had some seaweed soaking in a bucket of water for a couple of months now. Do you think I should dilute it before spraying or use it neat?

I would dilute it to a straw coloured liquid. Not sure about ratio's but I would use a cup full to a 2 gallon watering can of water to start with?

[rana]

Horsetails - are you mad

Anyone for Japanese Knotweed??????????????

[Dave & Kate N Wales]

Argh, i had to google this for images as no idea what it was and lo and behold it's the stuff that keeps coming back in our front garden. Any ideas how to get rid'
Katie

[binley100]

Argh, i had to google this for images as no idea what it was and lo and behold it's the stuff that keeps coming back in our front garden. Any ideas how to get rid'
Katie

Impossible to get rid I'm afraid

[Snadger]

Argh, i had to google this for images as no idea what it was and lo and behold it's the stuff that keeps coming back in our front garden. Any ideas how to get rid'
Katie

Move home!

[maypril]

I'm going to be trying horsetail as a blight control this year.

I have a plot that's full of horsetail which gets blight every year. Can you please explain how this is supposed to work?

[Gorsty]

No quick cure then to be rid of marestail

Hi folks

I was wondering which forum to post my query on - after reading this thread, I get the impression it's nye on impossible to get rid of????!!!!!

My garden was until recently a field - we want to grow veg and have a flower garden - have dug over one border, four times now but the marestail is still poking through.

I have mixed a strong weedkiller with wallpaper paste and painted it on the marestail - do you have any better ideas?

Read somewhere that in order to stand a chance, you should spray the marestail in the autumn when it is starting to think of going underground for the winter - that way it takes the weedkiller right down iinto the root system - any thoughts on this theory?

Thanks in advance

[Rixy]

Horsetails - are you mad

Anyone for Japanese Knotweed??????????????

I'll see your knotweed and raise you horsetail and Himalayan Balsam too . Yep all three are prevailant on our site, luckily I must have one of the only plots that doesn't have any of the above wretched 3 items on it.