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I'm thinking it's some kind of bryophyte or horsetail???
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I'm thinking it's some kind of bryophyte or horsetail???
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Not entirely sure but I'm afraid to say it looks like horsetail to me.It is the doom of man, that they forget. -
Nooooo! Horsetails are ACE! I love them!Comment
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Yep, that's horsetail. I expect the ones at school are showing their little heads now too, I'd better get up there over the weekendAll gardeners know better than other gardeners." -- Chinese Proverb.Comment
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Nooooo! Horsetails are ACE! I love them!
Ok...(speaks slowly and carefully as if to a maniac, on behalf of all the Grapes who loathe that weed they cannot kill)...why, Ousa ?
(I have only a very occasional one pop up, so I'm prepared to be convinced.
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There's no point reading history if you don't use the lessons it teaches.
Head-hunted member of the Nutter's Club - can I get my cranium back please ?Comment
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yup horses tail,they are full of dust/seed,just pick them of as they appear,they are then followed by the green fern like growth,which then gets picked and fed into my majic potion barrel,sigpicAnother nutter ,wife,mother, nan and nanan,love my growing places,seed collection and sharing,also one of these
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Yep. Horse tail/Mares tail...which ever! I was watching a cheffy programme the other day about samphire. When horse/mares tail is growing it looks a bit like samphire. Could it be related?
Has anybody tried to eat it if it's edible? B****y gets on my nerves at lottie but slowly eradicating it.
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Yes, Ouya - definitely horsetail
. Poor you! Hope there isn't too much of it - sorry, but it will take you forever to get rid of it.
Horsetail ACE? Love them? I think you'll change your mind when it tries to take over your plot.Forbidden Fruits make many Jams.Comment
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Good photo! I think they've been hand carved and Ouya is having us on!Comment
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Are you mad Ouya ? .........actually it's a herb and is meant to be good for arthritis and excema ....S*d the housework I have a lottie to dig
a batch of jam is always an act of creation ..Christine Ferber
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Horsetail (Equisetum arvense) grows on land: Equisetum - Wikipedia, the free encyclopediaOriginally posted by donnakebab View Post
Mare's tail (Hippuris vulgaris) looks similar but is entirely unrelated ... it's often misidentified and misnamed as "horsetail". An aquatic plant: Hippuris vulgaris Common Marestail PFAF Plant DatabaseAll gardeners know better than other gardeners." -- Chinese Proverb.Comment
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Thanks for that TS. My neighbour calls it Mares Tail. It's not related to samphire either so I won't be eating it though others do.Comment
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how is it administered,the bew is very obnoxiouse stinkOriginally posted by binley100 View PostsigpicAnother nutter ,wife,mother, nan and nanan,love my growing places,seed collection and sharing,also one of theseComment
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If you boil it up in water and spray it on your potato foliage, it stops blight. You have to do this every week through blight season though.
Also, you can add lavender to the brew and use it as a dandruff rinse. For you - not your spuds.
It's because it's antibacterial. So says Sally Cunningham from Garden Organic.
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Or cut a handful, tie the stems together and use it to scrub your pots! That's saucepans, not potatoes (though thinking about, why not those too?)Comment
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