NEED HELP

[Palustris]

I heard that the roots go down 5 feet.

That is a baby plant. When we were looking for the sewerage pipe in our previous garden we followed a root down over 3 metres and it was still going down when we stopped. (Never did find the sewer either). There are roots in a limestone quarry in Derbyshire which go down over 30 feet!

[Palustris]

[palmski]

I heard that the roots go down 5 feet. It was on the plots that were one side of the centre road at our lotties and was  gradually moving further south all the time, fortunately not on our side of the road. Some plots had been abandoned to it.XX Jeannine

5 Feet we wish i have heard stories of our little friend some 5 meters below our pride of joy....

[luckycharlie]

  Thankyou   palmski,


        X Chas

[shirlton]

We had a friend that worked on the road works and he said that they had to make a tunnel through a hill and it was even down there at that level

[calendula]

must be awful to be hated that much  ;D does have its uses, is a natural fungicide - often comes in with manure but then so does a lot of unwanted items - I just snap it off all the time and I get loads of it

[Robert_Brenchley]

It probably depends on where the water table is. I've seen dandelion roots that were still going strong at eight feet, but that was a few years from the edge of a quarry. On my plot, I can dig them out easily. I've heard some tales of horsetail roots though! They've been around since long before the dinosaurs, survived ecological disasters which make global warming look like a joke, and you can expect them to be tough!