Horsetail

moneyistooshorttomention

DaftyDuck wrote: »

How sure are you that it actually is horsetail? It would be showing little growth right now anyway.

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I tend to keep up with any plant that might have uses (so I can readily identify it) and the growth I could see was looking worse for wear - but a couple of stems had got long enough and with "branches" to them that I could see the telltale "joints" in the stems and feel the texture. I've been having a good "study" of ones in the 2 nearby bits of ground I can get near - wondering whether to try and make some shampoo from it.

Yep...it is:(

Been out looking at that crack today and thrown a load of cheapie salt I keep for slugs along the gap and covered it (to prevent the plants getting any light).

moneyistooshorttomention

Farway wrote: »

Although not the question you asked, it is apparently a good pan scrubber due to it's silicone content, organic & MSE in one plant

Yep...:rotfl:thats one of the uses I've heard of for it - but I think I'll stick to my silvery metal thingie I use for that purpose.

DaftyDuck

Farway wrote: »

Although not the question you asked, it is apparently a good pan scrubber due to it's silicone content, organic & MSE in one plant

Silicon, not silicone, just a small boob to correct ...

Davesnave

DaftyDuck wrote: »

Silicon, not silicone, just a small boob to correct ...

Some of us like small boobs!

moneyistooshorttomention

I ain't sayin' a word......

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moneyistooshorttomention wrote: »

I'm interpreting "grubbed out at 4" high" and "hoed every morning" as meaning = yep....pull up the cracked tatty bits of concrete it's growing through in order to be able to "get at it better" re the roots. Immediately next to that concrete path is some tarmac underneath cheap paving stones. Said cheap paving stones get all sorts of "normal" weeds growing through the gaps in between them (as they were just laid down on the tarmac and the gaps never filled with anything) and cant spot any of this in those gaps.

Just hoping that horsetail weeds go down straight down - rather than spread out sideways and they're lurking under that tarmac. I can feel another google coming up - "images of horsetail roots".....

Afraid not !
They go left, right, and centre !
In the area I live it is rife, and as previously mentioned, if a neighbouring garden has it it'll travel in all directions and pop up in tarmac, concrete slabs, gravel .........
In that scenario it'll be a few years of battling - as i'm finding out