Horsetail Plants

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Anyone have a nice crop this year? Myself and one old local eccentric fellow are the only ones known around here to cultivate it. There is a stone with a very large horsetail fossil located somewhere on the rock work of this house, can’t remember where.

That faint orange color you see behind the horsetail patch is four sets of scaffolding. A witness to how thick this stuff grows. These stalks are about six feet tall!

This all started about twenty years ago when an old hippie chick planted two or three stalks in my flowerbed. She also planted a ***** willow tree now so large it’s growing against the house despite heavy springtime trimming for floral decorations. Can’t bring myself to rid the yard of the two plant/tree decorations planted by Mom:)

Yeah, boredom has set in......pistol play is next up:cool:
 

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Why cultivate it? Is it edible or have medicinal properties?

Shucks.... it's prehistoric and survived! Gotta be good for sumpthin....might even decide to sell a little. :)

Found this interweb ad below:







Horsetail Reed Grass - Equisetum hyemale - 1 Gallon Pot

Horsetail Reed Grass is a native perennial plant of Eurasia, Canada and the U.S., where in the wild you might find it growing in the peripheries of wetland areas, lakes, rivers and ponds. Perfect for filling those moist to wet spots, its rigid, hollow and jointed upright dark green stems provide unique texture and a vertical accent in the landscape or pots in the margin of the garden pond.



Horsetail Reed Grass - Equisetum hyemale - 1 Gallon Pot




1 GALLON POT
6-PACK OF 1 GALLON POTS
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Quantity Price Each
1 $34.00
2 - 3 $32.00
4+ $30.00
 
Never seen huge clumps like that anywhere I've lived. Usually smaller clumps, we used to make a noise maker out of it when I was a kid, I showed my son how to make them and my granddaughter. You take a large section between the joints and roll it between your fingers where the joint is, then at the other end you flatten the reed, you need to split it in half to make the reed. You then put the reed in into your mouth and by adjusting how much is in or out and blowing you get a noise out of it. We did something similar with grass blades, get a nice big blade, stick it between the hollow of your two thumbs side by side facing you, pull it tight with your index finger and gently blow, its a real squawker, quite loud and irritating, we did that a lot. You can't really get much of a tune out of either of them, there was a way you could use your hands cupped together and blow into your thumbs that you could regulate with your fingers and almost get a decent tune if you practiced enough. Made a sound similar to that little instrument called a "sweet potato" or Ocarina. We also messed around with a thing we called a nose flute, it fit up to your nose and over your mouth and made a whistling sort of tune, you could get a tune out of it but mostly we just used it to whistle real loud and irritate older people.
 
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