"Terry Lynton" wrote in message
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A marble to small chesnut sized
bulb that tends
to grow in clusters that produces a long/tall thin green spear.
It has taken over the garden and will not die under any circumstances.

Yes I have been delivered I think the same weed in some 'topsoil' from a
friendly local farmer (the soil is good once all the weeds are riddled out).
Having looked at the pile from whence it came, I can see only couch grass,
thistles and rape. Through a process of elimination I'm tending to think
that it's the last but could stand corrected - I'm pretty sure that I know
what the roots of couch and thistles look like.

I guess I'm 'lucky' as the pile is delivered onto the drive so we have the
chance to put it through a casting sieve but in situ I would tend to agree
with the glyphosate idea. If you've got good plants mixed up with it then
you can mix the glyphosate with wallpaper paste for ease of painting but
wait til spring when they really start taking off again. If you *do* decide
to continue with a hand weeding option, one good thing about doing that now
is that somehow the roots seem to cling less tenaciously to the soil :-)

Good luck

--A