[MatthewParticipant]

Thank you charles, I will wait till maybe late Jan or early February as the area I want to plant them keeps getting covered in leaves.

[MatthewParticipant]

Thanks Charles and Stringfellow, hopefully I can weaken the horsetail next year. Does make a good green tea though!

[MatthewParticipant]

So its best to leave the plastic sheet on for the whole growing season and at the end pull any horsetail which have died or weakened.

I have already added a large mulch of compost/leaf mould on top of the soil where the horsetail was growing and have placed a sheet over the top. I think they grew so well in a particular part of my garden because it was very dense clay soil which had not had anything growning there for a while.

I was just worried because I read horsetail spreads through spores in april/may time and do not want them spreading more.

[MatthewParticipant]

Hi stringfellow,

I was wondering at all when you had the 800 grade black polythene over the soil, you lifted it up to dig out any of the horsetail or you just left it there for two seasons?

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