Amazing Product to Kill Mares Tail
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- čas přidán 8. 09. 2024
- This video will show you how to kill Mares Tail without using an expensive proprietary weed killer. Perhaps someone who has Japanese Knotweed on their property could try this product on that particular weed.
Thank you for this great tip! The mares tail in my beds have turned black within 24hrs and now they have shrivelled up. Very grateful for your video!
Just wanted to say a massive thank you for the tip. The initial mushroom-esque shoots have come up over recent weeks and after a couple of days spray with the degreaser they are now black and dying. This will save me so much time over the summer if I can keep on top of them!
Hi Jim You are an absolute saviour. I have loads of this awful weed in my front garden and it is just getting worse and worse. I tried a small patch and it worked. I have now bought some in bulk and it is SO much cheaper than the weedkillers i have been trying. this is brilliant and i am so grateful and thankful. Nicky
I've been trying WD-40 earlier this year, but the horsetail always came back. Kurtail from Progreen is a better option. It's expensive, but accounting for the dilution rate and the area it will cover, I think it works out cheaper than spraying WD-40 over large areas.
@@perishingtardis Hi how many times did you treat the horsetail with WD40?
@@nickydraper5559 Some parts, probably 3 or 4 times throughout the spring and summer this year. The WD-40 just kills the top growth, but then it will just come back again. Honestly, if you have a lot of this stuff growing, I'd recommend the Kurtail. It costs about 3 times as much as regular weedkillers like Roundup, but it really works. I sprayed a large area in June with Kurtail. After about 4 weeks there was some regrowth, but it was MUCH thinner, and the new shoots were weak and thin and couldn't stand up properly. So last weekend (about 8 weeks after the first treatment) I sprayed with Kurtail again. You just gotta keep kicking this stuff while it's down. And realize that this plant is prehistoric - you will never be able to kill it completely - just keep it severely weakened. As someone pointed out to me on another forum, the horsetail plant actually survived the asteroid impact that killed the dinosaurs... so we have little chance of fully eradicating it :-D
@@perishingtardis You just made me laugh out loud. I have sprayed the horsetail 4 x with WD 40 and there are a few little bits coming up but not many. I bought 5 litres of WD 40 for the price of half a litre of the weed killer i had used before. I will wait until all the WD 40 is used up before looking to buy Kurtail. The WD40 is working but as you say it does not die quickly. Where do you get your Kurtail from and what amount do you buy?
I experimented with WD-40. It does kill the above-ground part of the plant, but it returns again with a few weeks as the below-ground part of the plant is still untouched. I bought some Kurtail from Progreen and have had much better results, as it's a systemic weedkiller than goes down into the rhizomes. Kurtail is expensive, but accounting for the dilution rate and the area it will cover, I think it works out cheaper than spraying WD-40 over large areas.
I tried Kurtail, the stuff grew back again. You have to use Kurtail a lot for a long time, I think.
@@VanderlyndenJengold Perhaps your dose wasn't high enough? You could also try using a surfactant, or an additive to counteract hard water, if you live in such an area. Some herbicides are affected by hard water.
I’ve had these little buggers come up through the gaps in my decking for a few years, I usually just pull them out but I can see a 5 litre getting poured generously through the gaps. From a fellow Scot, I applaud & thank you 👍
You will poison the ground for years.
Thank you for this, been having problems with mares tail for years. Soon as it appeared this year have been spraying and it certainly works gone black and died. So once again thanks.
Thanks for sharing this, mares tail is a nightmare in my garden. I will definitely be trying this out. :-)
Please give update
I have to say thanks for this, it takes a while to work, but it does work - Sadly it also shows the parts where i did not spray as i have a lot, but it's spread out over a large area.... off to screwfix to buy some more... For anyone wanting to try this, it took about a month to work on one side of my driveway and the other side, they turned black, but not yet fallen over in 6 weeks (but not growing, so i am going to coat them again)
I saw this yesterday and I was sceptical but I grabbed my tin of WD40 as we have some of this coming though the fence from our neighbours house, he has quite an infestation. I treated a small area and then went out shopping, it was a really hot sunny day yesterday so no rain at all. We returned home about 4 hours later and the mares tail i had sprayed was black so i thought i would spay a little more. I popped out about 5 minutes ago and it has all turned black and very fragile so it looks like my scepticism was not warranted, it seems to work really well. Great shout Jim.
Thank you great video I've had a problem with this on a couple sites and with not being allowed to use any weed control especially the good stuff anymore it's hard to kill things
Thank you, I noticed four shoots in our garden. I’m going to try it 👍🏼
Thank you! This awful weed comes up around our house and even in the path beyond the garden. Over a decade of pulling this up every Summer!
Thanks for the video. You may have saved our allotment (it's covered in Mares Tail).
I've been watching this weed creep over my neighbor's gardens for years and I've been dreading the day it hit mine 😔 thanks for this Jim I am going to give this ago. If you pull one out two come back I'm sure!
did it work
@@paulc180 no! I'm still pulling them out now. White vinegar only lasts for 2 days before New come back through. The council spray outside no good either. I'm afraid it's here to stay. You might have better luck
Asked a professional gardener how to deal with it and his advice: Move house.
not really an option for people is it
washing up liquid dose the trick to just mix it with your weed killer
Glyphosphate touch kills this troublesome weed, so it is a question of which is the least expensive, WD40 or Round-Up touch, however as with Bindweed there is only one way to get rid of this nightmare and that is dig twice spade depth, down on hands and knees and pick every single bit of it up, and do not use a rotavator or tiller until you are sure it has gone, if you do, you will indeed reap what you sow as this more modern way of tilling soil will indeed spread this horrid nuisance everywhere, and I mean everywhere. No rotavators for me, double dig, thin soil with a hoe, hand tiller, and plant up.
I try I it's all over my garden after I made the mistake of composting, however I keep some well contained as its excellent health benefits
It really works but more of them follow on. One good thing is that no harm comes to any plants that might get a partial spray. It only seems to kill mare's tails.
I'm sat in my conservatory watching your video with a can of WD40 by the door - thanks Jim! Liked and subscribed
Ooh great tip Jim! Just about to get my first allotment & it has mares tail! Will definitely try this 👍🏻
New subscriber, all the best, Rachael
Could try planting ryegrass - I've done this and it seems that there is a lot less horsetail this year in my lawn.
Do you know if ryegrass also works for bind weed?
did it come up the next year at all would be nice for update ive same problem
Has anyone tried using SBK on it? I've had that suggested to me to use on marestail which is on my lawn. Or how Rootblast, I gave all the weeds in my borders a liberal dose of that last year and I'm sure it killed the marestail along with most everything else.
Sprayed mine yesterday and it’s went black already! Thanks so much for sharing, I will be reapplying next weekend just to be sure :) did it come back???
Yes it came back the following year, but my next door neighbour has it all over his garden & he just leaves, so its a major problem. I will keep spraying & hopefully over time it will it will become less
I would lightly sprinkle Caseron, saturate the ground with vinegar, spray the WF40 and toss a match at it!
I have horsetail - it's endemic in this area. I watched this with interest. Last year I came across a forum were someone in the US was using it on horsetail in his block driveway he was ecstatic. However, I am supposing it kills the top growth off. I tried glysophate (not Round up but the 360/ltr industrial strength stuff at 1:20 in water). That actually works. However all I can do about the grass is mow it and take walk around every three day and just cut the any new growth - takes persistence but seems it control it OK and so far it has not spread. It likes it under slabs for sure so I occasionally spray it. I have read about people who by cutting have almost eliminated it. I suppose it depends on our garden size. Mine is all grass so it's easy to cut/mow (apart from the slabs).
The marestail/horsetail did reappear the following year, so I purchased a 5ltr supply and am using that. I am hoping that with constant use it will get to the roots and kill it off for good.
Paraquat is about the only thing that will kill it down to the root and surrounding areas but illegal to use unless you’re a farmer and have a license….it’s who you know effectively! 😊😎
Wow what a great find 😮cheers
Fascinating - will have to try this for sure!
Try spraying with diesel its cheaper and it works if you have plants near put a tube over the weed and spray into the tube in a few days the weed will go black and die.
Thanks for this video Jim I’ll give it a go
Who would have thought of WD , thanks Jim , can`t wait to use it, my garden has been invaded by these things ,i will let you know how i get on, cheers.
How did you get on ?
WD40 has long been one of my favourite products, so useful for so many things but had no idea it would kill this damn weed! This horsetail menace is like a cancer, it is growing in my borders, often in other plants, my pathway, and even from the walls of my house! Fortunately it's only in my front garden not the back, but am almost obsessive, everytime I see it growing I race out to dig it up. Will give this a go, thanks Jim.
when you dig this weed up, realize you are only pruning the plant & it will grow much more vigorously...never cut this plant
@@georgelund8716 It is back as bad as ever this year, am trying the WD40 again. I haven't cut it but I do dig them up if they're growing through other plants. Such a vile weed!
thank you im suffering with this weed in my flower bed
Cheers for the video, never thought of using that! Did the weeds come back?
Yiu can bet your life they will.
I have it growing through my slate on my front garden it's an absolute nightmare I'm gonna give it a go and see what happens.
Does anyone know what this will do to the garden soil and veggie's growing in it?
It didn't appear to affect any surrounding plants. As you spray the weed directly it doesn't really touch much soil, although not sure if WD40 will travel through the weed to the soil.
@@jimsgarden3358 Thank you.
I also was wondering if this is safe for vegetable gardens. I would think not but, in other areas it's probably fine.
Used wd40 does kill the plant but they do return. Combination of sbk (tryclopir) and wd40 works better.
Thank you for this.
What do you suggest for bindweed Jim?
Thanks
Hi Nick, never had it in my garden, but most tend to use glyphosate.
Bit late to this, so hope your bindweed is gone! Glyphosate is good, but I find a broadleaf weedkiller works best (Grazon is my go to)
Just wondering did it come back the next year? If so, over a few years repeating treat, do you think you could eradicate.
Many thanks Jim, I will try just interested in knowing what happen year after 😊
Yes it has come back the following year, but as I have said previously I have a neighbour who is overrun by the stuff and doesn't bother about it, (20cm to 30cm in height) so I think it will be impossible for me to eradicate it, as these things have roots meters long and I think a lot of my problem is from his garden.
Will putting salt into the soil stop the mares tail from growing
@@darattaqwa haven't tried that.
Wow great am going to try today . Good to have a Scot find this we are an uncanny lot.
Hi Jim, has this weakened the mare's tail? Or is it still coming back as strong this year? Also, any tips on how to use this without effecting flowers near by?
Hi Maxine, yes it has come back, I intend to keep treating and hope it eventually lessens. It didn't appear to affect my flowers.
Take care,
Jim
Marestail will always come back u have to control it so it doesn't come back as often
Do you just poor it neet or mix with water?and also is it legal to do it?
Doff selective lawn weed killer kills the top growth but not yet sure if it kills any root.
I have this stuff - it's all over the neighbourhood. I cut it as soon as it appears, use 360 glyspophate. Seems to stop it spreading if I keep on top of it. It doesn't like shade or competition. Dry conditions seem to inhibit it as well. But constant cutting seems to work the best for me. Depends on your garden and your neighbours gardens I suppose. I have a wood at he back with it in so I'll never be rid of it.
Off to try it many thanks
Every time I look up mares tail, there's a different pic of it. I know mine is mares tail, but it doesn't look like this.
Brillant tip i will give it a go as its terrible to get rid of
Thanks you works wonders ,
Kerosene (heating oil) is cheaper but not sure what SEPA would say!!!
Very interesting!! I've used Pearl Weed killer (as recommended to me by a local qualified guy), but it keeps regrowing (several years later now).
Does the Mare's Tail regrow though? I need to stamp this out good, once and for all.
Unfortunately it will come back the following year, hopefully if you keep using it, it will eventually die off permanently
Cheers mate, my allotment has been invaded.
great tip.
Can anyone tell me if this will damage grass as I have an abundance of horsetail growing up through a newly planted lawn. I want to try this but reluctant to kill of freshly sown grass. Can each stalk be treated with wd40 individually perhaps
SBK brushwood weedkiller kills horsetail/marestail and it’s selective so it doesn’t kill grass.
Just watched video im really hoping it works as my next step is to just start watering the things as ive tried everything this is my last resort 🤞
I am amazed at your discovery!!
I have a client that has an infestation of horse/ mares tail, mainly in ONE of her many perennial beds.
Have been researching what it is , why is it in this one bed and why won't it die!!? away?
I'm literally in process of digging up removing all perennials from bed to" kill" that DAMN evil weed/ plant..
***How soon after I kill horsetail can I can I plant or transplant in that bed??**
Will it kill the grass around it? Or other stuff around it that I don't want killed?
No, doesn't appear to kill anything around it
I have a problem with Marestail/Horsetail in my garden and I've sprayed it with WE40. Like Jim says, it turns the plant black and it dies within a few days. However, WD40 does not kill the roots (rhizomes) of the plant and almost as quickly as one plant turns black, several more pop up around the dead one.
So the effects of WD40 on the Horsetail are superficially impressive but in reality it is no more effective than pulling the plant out by hand -- in both cases new ones soon appear.
To get rid of this nightmare plant permanently requires something to kill its rhizomes. I've used a number of different Weed Killers most of them containing glyphosate (cost me a fortnights holiday in Spain!), and it has been partially successful but the Horsetail still keeps coming back.
I wonder if the answer is to first spray with WD40, to damage the protective coating on the plant, and after 12 / 24 hours spray with glyphosate based Weed Killer to kill the roots?
@UCS6KewLjSe47ROly0FMwbWg Thank you Pablo. I've never heard of the stuff but I shall search it out and give it a go -- on the compost of course!
That will be the same shoot but it regrows as multiheaded version - just cut and it will regenerate but weaker each time.
I have been clearing deep in the soil to get further down the root, spraying root with wd40 then ensuring it gets inside the root too.
You’re a genius!
THIS WORKS MANY THANKS
I will try this and let you know 🌹
Did the horsetail return Jim or was the WD40 a permanent fix?
No it did return, I just keep spraying it and hopefully it will eventually die off completly.
Cheers Jim, gonna try this right now.
Just moved to a new property. Not a massive garden and this particular weed has totally taken over the grass. I would need a skip load of WD40 to get rid of this!
Lifesaver thanks
Did it come back? I'd think that WD-40 would accumulate in the soil and you wouldn't want to use that...
It came back the following year.
@@jimsgarden3358 Yeah I had the same problem using crossbow. I heard that you can inject concentrated round up into the hollow stem to kill the root system. I'm going to give that a go.
I hear that Neudorff is effective.
A used wd40 on mare's tail and went black and just crumbled down would say give it a try you be surprised
Does it kill the root system as well?
Doesn't kill the root system, but I will keep spraying yearly & hopefully it will die off.
Doesn't kill the root system, but I will keep spraying yearly & hopefully it will die off.
But will it harm other wild life in the garden?
Well it hasn't so far, midges worms birds & other insects still thriving.
I have an infestation so bad no matter how many products you throw at it ,how deep you dig it’s roots out,cover it in blackout sheeting for months it always comes back in force.WD 40 is not a serious solution
I’m so excited about this revelation I’ve just been outside (it’s 00:20) and coated every bastard mares tail on my property. The only problem is I stink of WD40 now and the Mrs has banished me onto the sofa... 🤣😐🤷🏻♂️
did it work? has it come back?
Did it work...or are you still on the sofa..😂
Ha,ha,- but at least you don`t squeak anymore and you should be rust free for a while lol.
Yes this works. I have been using it this year so I don't know if comes back but your see the effect within days 😃
U may well have just saved my back fortnightly pulling this stuff out of 100ft of flowerbeds
I will try wd 40 for sure as soon as rain stop
Did it come back up?
Yes it came up the following year, but I think if you were to keep using it over time it may have a permanent effect. As I have stated the problem I have is my neighbour has it in abundance and is over 18 ins high and he lets it grow freely, so I will never get rid of it, while it is so wild next door.
Thanks for this tip. I’m off to buy wd40 in the morning
So no good for allotments then?
Not sure how it would react with other plants or veg. Still waiting to see if mares-tail returns this year, if it does I will spray again. Might be the case that over a few years with treatment it will eventually disappear.
doesn't it kill everything else though?
No doesn't appear to kill everything else, going to try mixing it with a good weedkiller. My idea is the wd40 breaks down the protective outside layer and the weedkiller then gets down into the roots themselves and killls it for good. Fingers crossed
I know this vid is from 2018 and I would really like to see how you got on with WD40... I currently use Kurtail, (in the UK from Progreen) it does kill the plant but you will get some growing back the next year, not as much... the big thing I have recently learned is the female part of the plant that produces spores, I think around late March early April, THIS is what you need to kill...
Yes it's comes back the following year, I am hoping that it will get less & less each year. I have problems from the next door neighbours garden who lets it grow wild & it just comes through into my garden, so its an ongoing problem. I lifted a few slabs last year & there were big knots of the stuff under them, it really is pretty wild stuff.
It does work initially, but I am afraid it came back, so unless you are willing to keep applying Wd over and over I would try something else,I mean it's cheap enough.
Pro Green now do a spore stop which you spray on the shoots to in theory stop the spore relaease, then use the kurtail after they grow higher
You cannot beat them. Love them!
It is full of health benefits!
Two words 'Ammonium Sulphamate'.
It is not Mare's Tail. It is Horsetail or the Latin name Equisetum Arvense.
This evil plant is the terror of my allotment 😡
washing up liquid mixed with weedkiller will work
WD40 works better than Roundup at killing Horses Tail. Mine have turned black and then brown in a week 👍
Has the Mair's tale come back up this year?
Yes is has, I will treat again as it shows and hopefully over time it may die out. The problem I have is my neighbour has it in abundance, but he doesn't really care, so I may never get rid of it. Just purchased 5ltr of WD-40 on the internet for £22.50.
Jims' Garden I have the same problem as you in that my neighbour has a sea of tails in his garden. I have almost eliminated the tails in the front garden as it is small.....when my neighbour is out or on holiday I attack his tails nearest to the fence.....this is all I can do....
Any luck killing the root system over the years?
Yes, I see a lot less coming up and it's not so vigorous.
Nice 👍
He`s spot on, WD40 kills the plant in just a few hours but I`ve yet to see if it returns.
I've been trying WD-40 earlier this year, but the horsetail always came back. Kurtail from Progreen is a better option. It's expensive, but accounting for the dilution rate and the area it will cover, I think it works out cheaper than spraying WD-40 over large areas.
Will be giving this a go . Perhaps hitting with weed killer at the same time
will nuke it.
Did it work?
Amazing yet another use for WD40
It does not kill the root.
You need to get diamond weed killer
Hi
Did it come back . . . ?
Hi Alex, Yes it comes back the next year, but I have treated it again this year as it came through. One of the problems I have is my neighbour doesn't care for his garden & his marestail is coming through this year stronger & larger than ever.
Extremely toxic
Such a pesky weed. The property next to mine is an old gravel pit that is no longer in use. So it’s privately owned but NOT maintained. I feel so helpless, trying to eradicate my horsetail when it keeps coming in from the gravel pit property. I talked to the owner but he won’t do anything. Endless battle. Products like Kurtail are banned here in Denmark, we are down to having only Roundup available and that doesn’t really work. No wonder this plant survived the ice age, it’s unkillable
Brilliant but video could’ve been 1 minute!⌛️
Great way to add more toxicity to the drinking water buddy. Let's try not to use toxic chemicals in our garden's because everything you add gets into our water supply and it's causing problems. I know that you are not using a lot but every bit helps. There's got to be a better method
I had a few horse weeds / mare tail growing around my bushes out front and I was so excited that the large one about 4 ft. And then my husband pulled it out on me. I was pissed! They are edible and medicinal. I feel sorry for people who don’t know God’s wonders that he put on this Earth.
Horse tail is poisonous to cattle and horses and can kill them off quite quickly. Furthermore, they spread like wildfire and will choke out any other plants, flowers, grass in your garden. I find it ignorant of you to assume people want to fight horsetail for no good reason. We have a very good reason indeed - it kills our beloved horses, and it takes over your garden. Educate yourself next time before judging others.