We have it in our garden too @Fallon and the advice we were given was to keep cutting it right down and eventually the plant will weaken - is this true - I have no experience of this weed until we discovered it growing here this year.
Unfortunately, that method won't work on horsetail. We had it in our last garden and just used to do a regular decapitation then gathered it up and left it to ry in the sun for a few days and only then did it go in the general waste bin, never on the compost heap.
It's a prehistoric weed whose roots go down for metres. The bits above ground have silica content so for any weedkiller to work they need to be crushed and then have the product applied by hand, wearing rubber gloves to massage it into the growing parts. I got fed up doing that so took to the hoeing method.
It will eventually weaken. Needs a lot of patience tho. Years......
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The article posted is not mares tail. The stalks on what you have wont be the same so twisting a screwdriver down it won't work. Your weed is a survivor and you just have to keep ripping it out and hope.....sorry
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It's a prehistoric weed whose roots go down for metres. The bits above ground have silica content so for any weedkiller to work they need to be crushed and then have the product applied by hand, wearing rubber gloves to massage it into the growing parts. I got fed up doing that so took to the hoeing method.
It will eventually weaken. Needs a lot of patience tho. Years......