flowerbug
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yes, you have to be persistent about it. i dug them out of a garden to make the process go faster but it still took a few years to get rid of them.
What Did You Do In The Garden?
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yes, you have to be persistent about it. i dug them out of a garden to make the process go faster but it still took a few years to get rid of them.
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I think in our gardens we tend to stay on top of them, which helps. My friend and I are trying to help out a neighbour who has solid horsetails in lousy dirt. We are on year three of amending the soil, and that is definitely making a difference. We work together to try to gently lift them out without snapping off the root, which in this location is a challenge. The horsetails have been there for more than thirty years, and those roots run deep. Persistence does pay off though. We are definitely seeing a big improvement from year to year.
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digitS'
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Isn't that nice of you and your friend,
helping another
with their gardening problems?
Yes, it is!
Steve
helping another
with their gardening problems?Yes, it is!
Steve
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digitS'
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Dug about 12 gallons of soil out of the 4 sq ft vestibule for the hoop house. So much mud had accumulated over the years and I'd just pack it down walking on it. Now, the door can fully open.
Tacked down the film completely on the window frame, drove in a support for the frame to stand completely vertical and installed the window. The window needs replacing before it must be opened and closed too many times but that is possible since the same size window was on the shed-attached hoop house that hasn't been set up for about 7 years. I miss that neighbor who volunteered his garden to our enterprise. That was the first time I met him.
I moved 6 flats of pak choi, cabbage, other greens, etc. into the hoop house. The expectation is that they can be transplanted into the beds next week if the forecast for mid April looks good. The flats will have to be moved back into the greenhouse if instead we have much of a cold spell. Or, onto the utility room floor but I'd rather not do that. No heater has been used in the greenhouse so far but I even had to do some heating in the 2 hoop houses back in the old days. I don't expect needing to do any heating this year.
It rained while I was out there but that was while I had the plastic film overhead. Feels good to be close to the garden beds growing season. Still, a lot of work has to be done in the actual outdoors.
Tacked down the film completely on the window frame, drove in a support for the frame to stand completely vertical and installed the window. The window needs replacing before it must be opened and closed too many times but that is possible since the same size window was on the shed-attached hoop house that hasn't been set up for about 7 years. I miss that neighbor who volunteered his garden to our enterprise. That was the first time I met him.
I moved 6 flats of pak choi, cabbage, other greens, etc. into the hoop house. The expectation is that they can be transplanted into the beds next week if the forecast for mid April looks good. The flats will have to be moved back into the greenhouse if instead we have much of a cold spell. Or, onto the utility room floor but I'd rather not do that. No heater has been used in the greenhouse so far but I even had to do some heating in the 2 hoop houses back in the old days. I don't expect needing to do any heating this year.
It rained while I was out there but that was while I had the plastic film overhead. Feels good to be close to the garden beds growing season. Still, a lot of work has to be done in the actual outdoors.
flowerbug
Garden Master
horsetail roots can run a long ways before surfacing - at the bottom of this project page you can see pictures of the area and how far those roots were going:I think in our gardens we tend to stay on top of them, which helps. My friend and I are trying to help out a neighbour who has solid horsetails in lousy dirt. We are on year three of amending the soil, and that is definitely making a difference. We work together to try to gently lift them out without snapping off the root, which in this location is a challenge. The horsetails have been there for more than thirty years, and those roots run deep. Persistence does pay off though. We are definitely seeing a big improvement from year to year.
