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ERIKA LARSON: aplashes a little water on a daisy disguised
as West Varicouver Seniors’ Centre program coosdinator

Ginny. Blattler.

Both gardener anc flower are. part of

“Through the Garden Gate,” a garden party tomorrow,
Saturday, July 10, from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. at the centre (695
21st Si., West Vancouver.)

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AS DINOSAURS are in
vogue right now, what with
the ‘‘monstrous”’ success of
Jurassic Park, I thought I
might touch on another
prehistoric terror.

Persenally, I believe it should
have been named painosuarus in-
the buttus rather than equisetum
arvense, but most of you will be
more familiar with its common
name, horsetail or marestail.

Whatever you choose to call it,
this living fossil has been around

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USE A scuffle hoe te remove the top growth as it eppears.

since the carboniferous era, well
before the dinosaurs popularized
in the movies.

And going by the difficulty we
have in eliminating it from the
garden, it will be around for many
an era yet to come.

If there were a top-10 list for
the most commonly asked ques-
tions concerning problems faced
by the home gardener, the exter-
mination of horsetail would be
very near the top.

As far as I know, there are no
quick fixes to this problem ...
unless you are trying to turn your
garden into a toxic waste site
where nothing but a few mutant
forms of horsetail will survive.

It is such a problematical weed

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because of its growing habit.

It spreads not only through the
prodigious production of spores,
but also by means of its invasive
root system.

These multi-segmented
rhizomes will break away at the
slightest pull and then quickly
sprout replacement top growth.

The only way to gain any
ground is to buy yourself a scuffle
hoe (see illustration) and manually
remove the top growth as it ap-
pears.

These green leaves and stems
produce the sugars and starches
needed for continued survival and
if they are regularly removed, the

See Horsetail page 14

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