On 21/02/2012 13:10, Jim xzy wrote:
Chris wrote in
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexanders


I am pretty sure that is it! Thanks...

Yes, I have eaten the leaves and chewed a stem, after a friend told me it
was edible. No ill effects. It tasted similar to celery.

Don't you have to be rather careful about that since even in cultivars
of celery they have famously produced one that caused photosensitive
dermatitis in everyone that harvested it. Tasted good too apparently.

Does anyone have any tips on how to eradicate the stuff - apart from the
usual advice of continuously hacking it off below ground level?

Jim

Give it the odd dose of glyphosate every time the leaves show. Leave
three weeks and dig up what you can - repeat monthly though a season.
(also works on ground elder where every bit that breaks off the roots
will grow if you don't hit it with glyphosate first)

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Regards,
Martin Brown