Des Higgins wrote:
On May 14, 6:24 pm, Martin wrote:
On Wed, 14 May 2008 18:08:34 +0100, Graham Burley

wrote:
Anyone know what this is?
http://www.encompasserve.org/~burley/dsc00091.jpg
It's rampant. I thought I'd dug it out the year before last, but
a single plant appeared last year, this year it's covered a plot
of about 8 x 4 ft.

It will regrow from pieces of root as small as 1cm in length. If you
have trashed it with systemic chemical weapons like glyphosate first you
decrease the chances of regrowth somewhat but it is a war of attrition.

How to get rid of ithttp://www.gardenersworld.com/how-to/problem-solving/ground-elder/

That is a good consise sensible link. Those two methods do work but
you have to be patient and persistent. If you go organic, you have to
be willing to keep digging it out for years. You will get it but it
will take time.

Strimming it or close crop mowing every week for a year will work. Miss
a week and you lose. But a combination of physical and chemical attack
works faster.

Glyphosphate/roundup does work but here you have to
persist. Do it 2 or 3 times at 2 or 3 week intervals. Then you just
need to get the stragglers next year and the year after.

Unless you have an adjacent field full of the stuff. Hit it with
something (preferably different) every couple of weeks for a year and it
will mostly give up the ghost. Remember every leaf in sunshine is
storing energy in the roots so you never want it to have decent leaves.

If you try digging it out "organically" sieve the soil for every last
trace of root. I would hit it with weedkiller as well. YMMV

Some of mine was in the edges of lawn and broadleaf specific weedkillers
work reasonably well on it too.

Regards,
Martin Brown
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