Such an ancient fossil that has survived in all natural cataclysms, like field horsetails, is not so easy to remove from the garden, because its legacy is legendary. Rhizomes leave in a ground on depth to two meters so even forest fires to it are not terrible. Let's find out whether it is possible to defeat it on your site or whether it is worth to reconcile with its neighborhood.
How to get rid of a field horsetail in a natural way?
Effective measures to combat such a weed as horsetail field include planting its enemies - plants from the family of crucifers - in its habitats. It can be like vegetables - cabbage, olive radish, and siderates - mustard, rapeseed and others.
Due to the fact that all these plants excrete into the soil substances that horsetail does not tolerate, and thus for several seasons can completely withdraw the unwanted guest from their site.
Use of chemicals
Industrial chemistry, especially in high concentrations, can kill all life on the site. But the horsetail reacts to it not always positively because of the deep-lying root system. That's why it's so important to start fighting this weed as soon as it appeared on the site and did not have time to go deep into the soil.
To combat field horsetail, various herbicides are used, which act on both the greens and the underground part of the plant. Very popular with the gardener "Gelifos", which has a high activity in relation to the weed, but harmless to humans, domestic animals and useful insects.
Reduction of acidity in soil
Before removing the field horsetail from the garden, it is necessary to do soil analysis - it may be too acidic, and this is directly related to the active development of weed. The fact that this weed grows only on acidic peat bogs, and even at high humidity, so that these two factors can not play into the hands of the owner of the garden.
Having convinced that the soil PH exceeds the permissible norm, it is necessary to start taking measures to reduce it. For this there are two ways and both are harmless and even useful - it is liming the soil and saturating it with ordinary wood ash. Both of these in a few summer seasons will make even a strongly acidic soil unsuitable for the development of the horsetail of the field.
Ash can be scattered throughout the growing season without the risk of damaging the garden plants, but liming is carried out only in the autumn, when the garden has already been harvested. To do this, 1 to 2 m & sup2 take from 2 to 3 kg of lime-lint in the first year, and then only 500 grams of substance are used on the same plot. This will be enough to bring the soil back to normal in 2-3 seasons (depending on the initial acidity) and destroy the weed.