Mare's Tail infestation! How best to get rid cheaply?

-taff

Well if you didn't know what makes you think that they did? Next door had an extension finished at the end of last year. It's growing through the at the side where the foundations were cemented over already.

BananaRepublic

JimmySea said:

Unknown to myself, I had mares tail growing on my driveway, which I had tarmacked in the past year. The mares tail is super invasive and had pushed up the tarmac in several places. It doesn't sound like a cheap fix and potentially requires the drive to be ripped up dig out and relayed, to ensure all the mares tail has gone. Should the tarmac driveway company have highlighted this before or whilst laying the drive and told me about the issue? They are unwilling to do anything about the issue as expected with such a costly repair. If legal action is required do I have a leg to stand on?
Many thanks,

It'll take more than relaying the tarmac. Horse Tail is near impossible to remove, and it goes very deep. I've done a bit of reading around, and apparently applying lime is one sure fire way to remove it. Obviously this is no good for fruit and veg growers, but in your case a thick layer of lime below the sand/hardcore might have done the trick. Kurtail as already mentioned in this threads seems to the the one weedkiller that does control it, if not remove it.

Our neighbourhood has some pavements redone, but the council plums didn't spray glyphosate beforehand. So low and behold a few months later the new tarmac was full of holes where dandelions had popped up.I doubt they could have done anything about Horse Tail.

ameliarate

Just found this old thread. This pic is of my neighbours garden and needless to say the damned stuff is coming through to my garden now. I have tried everything but nothing works and they will do nothing! 

Davesnave

This is why it's imperative to look over fences at neighbours' gardens before committing to a purchase or long term rental. There might be mare's tail, Japanese knotweed, a pond pump that goes 24/7x365 to keep some totally useless koi carp alive, or just a couple of yappy terriers, but whatever it is, you need to know!

ameliarate

Davesnave said:

This is why it's imperative to look over fences at neighbours' gardens before committing to a purchase or long term rental. There might be mare's tail, Japanese knotweed, a pond pump that goes 24/7x365 to keep some totally useless koi carp alive, or just a couple of yappy terriers, but whatever it is, you need to know!

We were here before them and it wasn.t like that last year, we just had a little bit at the front of the houses. 

Davesnave

ameliarate said:

Davesnave said:

This is why it's imperative to look over fences at neighbours' gardens before committing to a purchase or long term rental. There might be mare's tail, Japanese knotweed, a pond pump that goes 24/7x365 to keep some totally useless koi carp alive, or just a couple of yappy terriers, but whatever it is, you need to know!

We were here before them and it wasn.t like that last year, we just had a little bit at the front of the houses. 

What I said still applies. A little may become a lot. Maybe time to 'assist' your neighbour? What about other neighbours? Peer pressure might work.

Failing that it's pull up the drawbridge time....or maybe put down the root barrier.

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ameliarate said:

Just found this old thread. This pic is of my neighbours garden and needless to say the damned stuff is coming through to my garden now. I have tried everything but nothing works and they will do nothing! 

Wow, that is horrendous. 
Very selfish of the neighbour too because this plant is a rampant grower and all areas that border this garden will have it.
Until this person starts to fight it it'll be stronger than the rest of you put together, if something's not done sooner, rather than later, you'll see it double by next spring.
Killing the stuff is possible but it won't be easy or cheap.

In my, humble, opinion this is just as bad as japanese knotweed for its vigour and difficulty in removing.