What is this weed and how can I get rid of it please?

[StartingOverInMy40s]

I need some help - this plant seems to be popping up all over my garden this week.

What can I do to get rid of it?

I moved in with my partner last year and he says it's impossible to beat but I'm not giving up that easily

Please help me

https://www.rhs.org.uk/weeds/horsetail

That is horsetail and it's true, it's very hard to get rid of if not impossible (the roots can go down for metres). Pull it out as you find it.

Mare's tail.
You're going to have to nuclear bomb your house and garden I'm afraid. And even then it'll survive.

It's mare's tail and it is a bastard; your partner's right.

I have some and have not tried to kill it yet, but this is from a recommended herbicide website:

'Kurtail Evo is based on two weed killer active ingredients glyphosate and 2,4-D that combine in a lipophilic action to maximise uptake.'

If you dig it's often worse, as bits left behind grow into new plants. Treat a few plants and let the runners take the poison everywhere.

You have my sympathy, we have this and it's next level resistant to weeding and weed killer.

It's taken several consecutive years of digging it up for it to (almost) disappear.

My tip is to wait for when the soil is bone dry, if that ever happens, and dig it out trying to get all the roots.

It'll come back. Repeat. Dig out. Repeat.

It came from our neighbours garden - what a gift

I tried Kurtail years ago and it does kill the top growth but it certainly doesn't kill the root system. Possibly if you keep dousing it in weedkiller it would weaken it significantly, but I didn't like using herbicide so I stopped bothering.

I find that it thrives most in barren areas, eg expanses of gravel. If there's lots of competition from other plants it's less of a problem. And tbh it doesn't harm other plants in the way bindweed does, for example. Now I just pull it as soon as I see it and it really isn't a problem at all.

It's full of good nutrients, especially silica, and if you're into this sort of thing you can boil it up to make a natural fungicide/tonic to treat powdery mildew.

Dicophar kills it. Will kill all except grass so be careful using close to plants you want to keep

I got rid of mine (it was so bad a dreamt about it growing out of my head). Got it down from whole patches to the odd one over the years I was in that house

Repeated applications of glyphosate. I posted this the other day so sorry for repetition - mix concentrated glyphosate with ready made wallpaper paste and brush it on repeatedly- I'd wander up the garden and do bits daily. Wear gloves.

Also I'd give the larger, more tough bits a scrape with a stone to break down the waxy cuticle a bit. Put a stone on it to keep it from touching other wanted plants.

We had that in our previous house, neighbours didn't bother with gardening so we were fighting a loosing battle. As others have said almost impossible to get rid of, especially if neighbours have it untreated

We have it, we live near two disused quarries, and it's spread through the village and surrounding fields. It has marched up the lane to us, and now is in our big front garden. Impossible to get rid of. Our neighbour doesn't bother, so it comes through to us, grrr. The guy on Beechgrove said that the roots are found down mines, so we're stuck with. Just keep trying to kill it off. Grim.