Re: more invasive menaces (horsetails)
Margaret,
Interesting that you should mention the horsetail not growing so well around the
Jeruselum artichokes...My experience it that these aggressive tubers are
allopathic to many(not all) of its neighbors..Killed two of my Arborvitae/Thuja
shrubs before I understood what was happening..Hey,maybe thats a concept kill
off the horsetail with the tubers ;-)just kidding because trust me one is just
about as bad as the other..Its been 7 years since I first planted these tubers
and dug out 4-5yrs(and every year since)and still they linger, in hopes I will
not notice until they have aggressed on their next victims..
Seriously since they are part of the sunflower tribe (which is also in certain
stages allopathic )I strongly believe these to be 'killers'in disguise..There
must be some scientific data to be found to verify this ,anyone know?
Connie
Margaret E. Millard wrote:
> 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
> --
> memillard@ns.sympatico.ca
> on the south shore of N.S.,
> in Canada...Zone 5b
>
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