A Devil of a weed

 

Hi all,

As a newbie to this site I'll pose a situation to see if anyone has
come across it and found a solution.

1½ years ago we rented a new property in Belgium. I'm retired and my
wife is contracted to a European school. After a couple of months I
discovered one garden border was rife with "horsetail". I'd never come
across it before but I had heard of it's reputation.

I persuaded the owner, who had carefully snipped it back to ground
zero, before our arrival, to dig out the border. It returned, in
earnest in the autumn. I sprayed each shoot with a double concentrated
dose of SBK. Four weeks later I repeated the dose. It appeared to do
the trick! Unfortunately, a week ago it returned in all it's glory.

I have re-sprayed but fear the worst. Has anyone found a permanent
to this problem? I fear that I have met an insoluble problem.


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Don

 



 http://www.allotment.org.uk/articles/Weeds_and_What_to_do.php

best of luck..

 




Thanks, I think I'll need it:-)



--
Don

 



"Don Gray" wrote

Welcome to this Newsgroup. We had that on our last allotment site and it
appeared to move across the site in a wave of very thick growth  leaving
behind some permanent plants in it's wake. We just hoed them off as soon as
they appeared, a constant battle, and they did get weaker as the years went
by until by the time we were chucked off (they turned it into a Park) we had
all but eradicated it. Not yet seen it in the Park but I bet it appears
eventually.

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Regards
Bob Hobden
W.of London. UK

 

"Bob Hobden" wrote:

Thanks for the welcome Bob. Unfortunately my time here in Belgium is
now limited. I suppose most people would say "Lucky you". I'm just
'bloody-minded' and hate to be beaten by a plant older than the
dinosaurs.

Help! People have mentioned 'glyphosphate' as a solution, but my
ignorance shows, as I don't what this is, so I can't translate it into
Dutch :-(

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Don