Experienced gardeners recommend deoxidizing the soil with calcium-containing agents.
Then you will have to dig up the area with a pitchfork to get to the deep roots of horsetail and couch grass.
All remains must be burned or removed from the site.
Over time, these weeds will still appear, but in smaller quantities.
It is best to pull out young shoots so as not to give the plants a chance.
You can also plant crops on the plot that will suppress couch grass and horsetail, shade them and deprive them of nutrition. These can be oats or winter rye, peas, buckwheat or spring rape.
Such green manures will completely get rid of annoying and harmful plants in two or three seasons.
There is also an alternative option, which involves covering the weeds with black film or other material that will not allow air and light to reach the plants. In a year, their roots will simply die under such conditions.
