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Originally Posted by Dave Liquorice[_2_]
On Digging will never get rid of it as there will always be a bit of
root left. Glyphosate two or perhaps three times a year will get rid
of it in a year or three.
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If you have a lawn next to the bed, it will be in the lawn and spread back from there.
Although you can't get rid of ground elder by digging it out, you can reduce it from a big weeding problem to a small weeding problem by one year's hard work. Keep your eyes open and dig it out within a week or three of it resprouting, and there will be a lot, lot less of it next year. You just have to keep vigilant for ever after, but it will remain a small problem. But ever neglect it and it will return to being a larger problem. After all, weeds are always with us, and I'd rather have ground elder than some others.
I've got ground elder in my lavander hedge and weeding it out shreds my fingers.