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I have a gardener and I spend a decent amount of time working in my yard, but it’s still susceptible to the occasional fungus or insect problem. I hate using chemicals in my yard. I’d rather have bugs or pull out plants with fungus than spray toxic chemicals. We don’t have pets yet, but La [...]
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It’s January, sunny and 75 degrees (jealous?) here in La Jolla. I’ve been thinking a lot about spring and all of the things I want to get accomplished in my yard. My yard looks it’s best in the spring. I’m trying to get it to look great year round, but am not quite there. I [...]
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My last giant equisetum update was in July, a month after the nursery who recommended I plant giant horsetail in my yard, started using a poison called SedgeHammer to try to prevent it’s rapid spread and eventually kill it off. For those of you who don’t know, horsetail (equisetum) is an invasive weed that can be [...]
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Believe it or not, I do. We live on a small canyon. I have seen rats, possums and raccoons. We have tried several times to grow vegetables and failed. Something was eating them. I even had a habanero pepper plant that I was convinced whatever it was would stay away [...]
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There must be a lot of you out there in the same boat because I am getting quite a few hits to my little website from people searching “killing horsetail” and similar. So I thought I’d write a little update.
Someone from the nursery who recommended I plant this stuff in my yard (see prior horsetail [...]
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It might be luck, but even a little girl can grow a beautiful Dahlia. It was quite a project, but it paid off. You can do it too. Read about it.
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I do not have a “green thumb” whatsoever. I am trying. I do happen to like things that are big and unique looking. Hence, I bought my first dahlia plant at Green Gardens Nursery on Cass Street in PB several years ago. It was amazing. When it starts to bloom again, I’ll post a picture. [...]
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I am posting this entry out of pure selfishness. I am hoping that someone can help. We installed new landscape a few years ago. A designer from a local nursery recommended giant horsetail for one area of my yard. She swore up and down that the expensive chemical Bio Barrier would keep it from spreading into the rest of my yard. WRONG!!! It’s everywhere. I was just too naive at the time to question her. It was my first ever experience with a yard full of real live plants.
I can’t keep it under control. I’ve tried RoundUp, digging it up, Remuda, Brush B Gone and a few other things and it’s not helping. I’ve read about liming but the San Diego City Weed Expert (I can’t remember his real title) said there is already a lot of lime in our water and that I shouldn’t do that. His answer was to cut off the top of each new stalk, and shoot a syringe full of Brush B Gone down the center of it. Well, I’d be out there every day for multiple hours if I followed his advice. I did try it but with no success.
Any ideas?
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