swroot wrote in message
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Michael wrote:

Help! I am being overrun by hundreds of grape hyacinths. I cannot
get rid
of them by seperating them from the soil as it is lumpy clay.
Systemic
weedkiller didn't do much to them. They are speading and growing lots
of new
bulbs. Can anyone please tell me how I can destroy them.

I had that problem once. They make good compost: show them no mercy!

Yes, they're a gorgeous blue. But if they like your garden, what starts
as a scattering of gorgeous blue flowers in spring becomes a solid mat
of bulbs and juicy green leaves smothering everything else in the
garden
later in the year. To add insult to injury, nothing eats them, not
slugs, not snails, not mice, *nothing*!

I dug up 3 buckets full on Monday, onto the compost heap they went. I
had had no flowers for two years, and they were crowding everything else
out.

Mike
www.british-naturism.org.uk