Re: more invasive menaces (horsetails)
Diane Whitehead wrote:
>
tried a piece of landscape cloth over a patch in my daughter's
> garden to see if horsetail would pierce it. It didn't. Landscape cloth
> has the advantage that water can go through it, so if there are tree roots
> underneath, they will get the water they need. I don't know whether it
> will kill the horsetail, though, as the experiment lasted only a few
> months.
> Diane Whitehead, Victoria, BC, Canada
>
I have a lot of horsetail here, locally we call it marestail. It is a
real pain. I thought to kill it with landscape cloth; it seemed to work
at first but after a bit (about one full season,) I noticed the tips
beginning to push through the cloth. In the spring there were the spore
heads everywhere. I have returned to grumble and dig mathod, as well as
mowing off the critters as they stick up their heads in the
spring....really early here sometimes in the snow. The one place they do
seem to be slowing down, is around the jeruslem artichokes or sunchokes.
I didn't plant those and they have never been harvested so I expect
there is quite a mat of tubers down there. Marg
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memillard@ns.sympatico.ca
on the south shore of N.S.,
in Canada...Zone 5b
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