It is a low growing shade plant in a flower bed on Vancouver Island
Garlic, Rosemary, spinach. I will be planting peas and lettuce right after Valentine's.
I get rid of horsetail by pouring vinegar & dish soap on it when it is not near another plant. Kills it dead! As for the bits that are near...
Blackberry brambles just under the soil results in early morning MEOWW! And he doesn't come back for a few weeks - but then forgets. Happens...
Got them in my Aster also - on the Island - I have been picking them off with tweezers but that takes hours as there has to be a few hundred on...
The vinegar will kill the canes on contact! Be careful! Only apply the vinegar directly to the growing horsetail. It will not sterilize the...
I have not had any horsetail in my lawn but was succesful getting rid of it in my beds and along the sidewalk (in the rocks). I used 1/2 L...
Wireworms can also be baited with pieces of potato stuck on a stick and buried 2 -3 inches below the ground. Every two days pull up the stick and...
Had quite the wind blow up yesterday on Van Isle - snapped off a nice tomato plant just at the soil line. Trimmed it off, put rooting compound on...
Spray it with kitchen vinegar staright out of the jug. You can use an empty pop bottle with a few holes punched into the screw top and drizzle it...
After some hit and miss - I have found the answer - plain vinegar straight out of the bottle sprayed onto the soil just around the offending weed...
I have tried Roundup and hand pulling for two growing seasons to no avail! Roundup just doesn't work. Coming from the Prairies to Vancouver...
