http://www.allotment.org.uk/garden-diary/474/mushrooms-mares-tail-decorative-raised-beds/ Vegetable Fruit & Herb Growing on my Allotment Tue, 07 Feb 2012 12:05:50 +0000 hourly 1 http://www.allotment.org.uk/garden-diary/474/mushrooms-mares-tail-decorative-raised-beds/#comment-6871 alastair mckinney Mon, 09 May 2011 19:00:03 +0000 http://www.allotment.org.uk/garden-diary/?p=474#comment-6871 Rubber glove ..2" paint brush and paint Mairs Tail with white spirit (yes paint brush cleaner) Hold the weed in the gloved hand ..paint with the white spirit and in 2 days IT'S DEAD !!!....A few came back the next year but after treatment yes..I admit I have a few..but nothing like used to be and doesn't effect other plants. Rubber glove ..2″ paint brush and paint Mairs Tail with white spirit (yes paint brush cleaner) Hold the weed in the gloved hand ..paint with the white spirit and in 2 days IT’S DEAD !!!….A few came back the next year but after treatment yes..I admit I have a few..but nothing like used to be
and doesn’t effect other plants.

]]> http://www.allotment.org.uk/garden-diary/474/mushrooms-mares-tail-decorative-raised-beds/#comment-5145 Duncan Tue, 26 May 2009 11:42:59 +0000 http://www.allotment.org.uk/garden-diary/?p=474#comment-5145 We have quite a problem with marestail on our allotment site at Middleton, near Manchester. The plots that are lower down and get waterlogged in winter have the marestail problem far worse than me. The method I use is to get a flame gun and just singe the foliage enough to break the 'acrylic' type coating that marestail has (not burn the plant). Then use a glyphosphate based weedkiller a few times and this should get rid of it (at least for a few years). Breaking this outer coating makes the weedkiller get absorbed much better. Apparently someone on our site decided to use a rotavator on his plot (not a good idea if you have a marestail problem) - you guessed it - the next year his plot was full of the stuff!!! We have quite a problem with marestail on our allotment site at Middleton, near Manchester. The plots that are lower down and get waterlogged in winter have the marestail problem far worse than me. The method I use is to get a flame gun and just singe the foliage enough to break the ‘acrylic’ type coating that marestail has (not burn the plant). Then use a glyphosphate based weedkiller a few times and this should get rid of it (at least for a few years). Breaking this outer coating makes the weedkiller get absorbed much better.
Apparently someone on our site decided to use a rotavator on his plot (not a good idea if you have a marestail problem) – you guessed it – the next year his plot was full of the stuff!!!

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