echinosum wrote:
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 have a problem with ground elder (and creeping buttercup) because the
young leaves of both look similar to strawberry leaves. :-(