Is this Japanese knotweed?

[theredphonerang]

This is on some land near to my house - can anyone identify it please?

I don't think so.

It's very strange though

I think it might be horsetail.

It's a plant known as horsetail. It starts looking a bit like asparagus but then turns into a fern like plant. It is incredibly invasive and hard to get rid of due to it's extensive root system.

I have it in my front garden, it's a nightmare!

I also think horsetail and if it is it’s a bugger, highly invasive and difficult to get rid of.

Ah great thank you

Fuck, that makes me feel itchy.

Doesn’t look like it - knotweed is more pinky/greeny.

it's the flowers of the great horsetail.

@LetTheCabbagesDie

@theredphonerang just burn down the garden, there's literally no other way. disclaimer that's a joke

God I went cold looking at that! But thank fuck it's horse tail and not knotweed!

Yes, the dreaded horsetail. These are the spore laden fruiting stems, so remove ASAP. I have it in my garden, (been here 27 years) and despite assiduously removing what I can, it still comes up everywhere!
Unkillable.

That photo really creeped me out for some reason!

We have a wild garlic problem round here but at least that had pretty flowers. The horsetail just looks wrong!

Buy some glyophosate (sold in Wilko and Poundstretcher), buy a printer ink refill set then use the syringe from the printer ink set to inject the glyophosate weed killer into the stem - this killed off my Japanese knotweed quite effectively.

It’s horsetail which was one of the very first plants to evolve. Hadn’t changed since the Devonian age. Pretty cool, but also very invasive!

if you have a dino mad child you can show them the plant and tell them dinosaurs are this

it is invasive, but unless you want to win a beauty contest for your lawn

Horsetails are fab. Prehistoric!

100% horsetail. Prehistoric, also invasive. Total bugger to get rid of.

No likey that photo!!! Chills

Obviously this threat prompted me to google horsetail weeds...roots that are 2m deep? Literally would give me nightmares if I ever discovered it in my garden

It's strange seeing posts saying 'thank goodness, horsetail not knotweed' in the same thread as people saying they've had ineradicable horsetail in the garden for 30 years and that the roots go 2m deep. We had knotweed in our garden when we moved in, but after spraying it with glyphosate for two years, we have seen no sign of it in the ten years since. From the tales of horsetail, it sounds like it would have been less worrying if this was knotweed!

It's strange seeing posts saying 'thank goodness, horsetail not knotweed' in the same thread as people saying they've had ineradicable horsetail in the garden for 30 years and that the roots go 2m deep

Yeah that was me...before I googled and read up more on horsetail. I now would fear either plant showing up in my garden!

Jap knotweed isn't great but imo it doesn't quite deserve its reputation as the ultimate triffid. If the mortgage co had got wind of it before exchange we wouldn't have even got a mortgage on our house, yet with 5 or 6 lots of glyphosate it was gone completely! Horsetail sounds worse!