What is this particularly nasty weed? It ran for about 2 meters underneath my garden fabric and then pushed up between pavers through polymeric sand.
Apparently a very basic dinosaur of old plants Disturbed and moist soil often arrives in untreated top soil it is a beast if it’s not your design scheme tho at same time it is part of the flora kingdom
https://www.canr.msu.edu/resources/field-horsetail-a-plant-as-old-as-time Remember - I don’t know we have same as Michigan out here Vanc though i have been told how old origin this species is and disturbed soil In my experience - it grows through pavement :)
In my almost 30 years tending a large garden in Burnaby, I had pretty good success reducing the number of horsetail plants popping up everywhere. The garden was between Deer Lake and Burnaby Lake and about the same elevation so naturally moist most of the year. The soil was incredible, very fertile and nary a rock in sight. I had a wonderful time tromping around in my bare feet, pulling up yard after yard of horsetail rhizomes (and morning glory too). I can't remember any more how long it took for the horsetail population to drop but it did eventually become a minor problem. One other note - when I covered a fairly large area with landscape fabric, I was horrified several years later to pull it up to reveal an almost-solid mat of horsetail rhizomes beneath.
Field Horsetail Equisetum arvense. Just to clarify, not Mare's-tail (Hippuris vulgaris), which is a water plant, very different.
This article from many you alerted me to https://s3.wp.wsu.edu/uploads/sites/403/2015/03/landscape-fabric.pdf
Interesting. So the landscape fabric can actually provide a matrix for Horsetail rhizomes to colonize.
i am not trained in dr Linda professional training and have no license in this realm — however, I find it interesting to read the many articles linked below https://puyallup.wsu.edu/lcs/
