Transplanting field horsetail

moellermd

moellermd

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Any one ever tried to transplant this stuff. I guess it reproduces via spores/tubers. Seems to hold pheasants.
 
moellermd said:
Any one ever tried to transplant this stuff. I guess it reproduces via spores/tubers. Seems to hold pheasants.
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I understand that it is what we call marestail. It is an aggresive noxious weed. If you want to you can come get all you want. If you don't have it you don't want it.
 
haymaker said:
I understand that it is what we call marestail. It is an aggresive noxious weed. If you want to you can come get all you want. If you don't have it you don't want it.
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No its not marestail it is this stuff

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Moe should be pretty easy to trans plant, I got a bunch of it for around my pond. I just dug it up from some canal banks, broke it up into small bunches and replanted. It is spreading pretty good on its own.

Ps I love the new signature.:thumbsup:
 
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Of all the things you could plant, why would you pick that? :confused:

Why not NWSG, or a plot, or do some disturbance discing to unleash a variety of annuals and biennials instead?
 
1GB said:
Of all the things you could plant, why would you pick that? :confused:

Why not NWSG, or a plot, or do some disturbance discing to unleash a variety of annuals and biennials instead?
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It grows in wet areas and seems to be rather prolific. The place I am planning to plant it is a narrow waterway just 5 feet wide. Birds seem to like the stuff because it is really dense and really noisy if you walk in it.
 
I call it snake grass. The birds love it. It will hold up to the snow. You won't sneak up on any birds with that stuff.
 
The stuff in the pic will grow like wildfire (at least it does in warmer southern clones) - not as easy to stop or keep in check as it is to get started...
 
I have always heard that called cord grass, and or bullrush. In any case it holds soil and birds, I have heard it filters water effectively as well.
 
In the picture it is scouringrush. Field Horsetail will put out whorls of branches at the joints. They are in the same family though. I wouldn't plant it as it will take over and is very hard to kill. Some species are posionous to cattle and horses. It will not stay where you plant it.
 
Wirehairs said:
It will not stay where you plant it.
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We have some growing in other ditches and it seems to stay there as long as the ditch has a steep bank and the soil above it stays dry. You are right that it does seem to be quite prolific. Definitely something to thing about. But hey it is a native species and everyone likes natives right.
 
It mostly stays where it is around here. Only in canal ditches and wet corners of horse pastures.
 
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