Areas of application and effects of horsetail

Prepare field horsetail manure

To prepare field horsetail manure you need:

• a vat (not made of metal)
• Field horsetail (dried or fresh)
• close-meshed net or old curtain
• Water (preferably rainwater)
• Barrel cover

For ten liters of liquid manure you need around one kilogram of fresh Field horsetail or 200 grams dried Herb. Chop up the horsetail and put it in the net or an old curtain. Then put it in the bin and fill it up to about six centimeters below the edge.

Stir the manure once a day. After a few days, bubbles appear, a sign that the manure is fermenting. Field horsetail manure is ripe when no more bubbles appear.

Make a broth from field horsetail

For one liter of horsetail broth, you need 100 grams of fresh or 15 grams of dried horsetail. Chop up the herb and pour rainwater over it.

Let the broth stand for 24 hours. Then the mixture is boiled once and simmered gently for about 30 minutes. This releases the ingredients from the field horsetail.

After cooling, the broth is poured through a sieve and diluted.

Field horsetail manure as fertilizer for plants

You can fertilize many plants with field horsetail manure. It is only unsuitable for mint plants such as peas and beans.

Dilute the liquid manure in a ratio of 1: 5 and pour the mixture around the plants. Be careful not to wet roots or leaves directly.

You can give fertilizer from field horsetail once a month to strengthen it.

Horsetail broth as plant protection for roses

Mix the cold broth in a ratio of 1: 4. Sprinkle from mildew and other fungal diseases Roses several times a day with the mixture.

The broth also has a preventive effect as a plant protection, because the horsetail strengthens the leaves. To prevent powdery mildew, spray the plants once a week.