Hi - I am new to this forum and i am hoping that some of you experts ca
help me out with this really tricky problem.
We have a weed that grows out from under the block paves on the drive it is green and looks like little Christmas trees - or like the ends o the branches of the Christmas tree. A sort of brown twig like centr spine with green blades coming of in a herringbone style.
We have tried every make of weedkiller including the 'kills down to th roots' kinds and it keeps coming back.
Can anyone tell us what it is plus if there is a way to get rid of i once and for all - preferably without pulling the drive up :=)
I have a similar weed growing in the cracks of my driveway. I have all but eliminated it by using the string trimmer on it every week. Each time I zap it, less comes back. I think I will be able to completely eliminate it this year without chemicals.
The message from Teeonethousand contains these words:
You are not in a forum. You are posting to an international, but mostly American newsgroup.
It's called marestail, equisetum. It dates from the dinosaur age, has black stringy roots 25 ft deep (so digging out is pointless) and is
*seriously* invasive.
Pulling off _every_ stem that appears in spring will help starve it into submission.
Before poisoning it, you have to thrash the weeds with a stick or something to thoroughly bruise them. Otherwise, the weedkiller won't penetrate its hard waxy skin. That's partly why your efforts failed to make any impression before.
You probably won't eradicate it completely if the huge root system is alive and well in neighbouring gardens, so this is going to be a longterm battle, but it's worth the effort to limit the spread and stop it taking over the whole garden.
"Forum" is a common English word for a place of open discussion. Type "define: forum" on Google and you will find everything from a public square to a court of law, and even "newsgroup" as an example of online forum.
That being said, I don't think the focus should be on one word, the original poster asked an on-topic question and I for one learned something about horsetails.
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The OP is posting from a UK commercial website (www.gardenbanter) which provides a portal to usenet newsgroups. Unfortunately, the website does not really explain that to its members, so they mistakenly think they are posting to a forum belonging to and operated by the website. This appears to suit the webmaster's intentions.
There are significant differences, from a users POV, between a website forum, and this newsgroup. Website forums are controlled by the webmaster, often, to please, or at least avoid offending, the intersts of advertisers who buy space there. So, gardenbanter moderates the content of this newsgroup as it appears on their so-called "forum". Its members are reading this newsgroup in a bowdlerised version moderated for content and language.
Another difference is that on a website forum the webmaster/website technology dictates how long messages and threads stay on view to users. Many busy website forums/message boards are almost as transient as a chatroom, and there's nothing the user can do about that. In gardenbanter's case, this has the unwelcome effect of giving its members a very short attention span. They can't keep an interesting thread in full view as long as they choose, and therefore often have the greatest difficulty in following threads and contributing to complex conversations.
Mostly, though not in this case, gardenbanters UK members manage to hit the "forum" which leads them to uk.rec.gardening where they can get UK-relevant advice. In that newsgroup, they have inadvertently caused much thread disruption partly due to poor technology at the website which forwards their posts...starting a new thread for each post, for example, and not using reply-with-quote. They would be far better off, imho, using any other method to read and post to newsgroups.
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