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Old 29-03-2004, 02:04 PM
Nick Maclaren
 
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Default How deep can ground elder survive?


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Roderick Orr-Ewing writes:
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| I will be shifting some soil in my garden soon to make a bank. Some of
| the soil I will be using has ground elder in it and I was wondering from
| what depth the dreaded stuff can still survive and grow.
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| The bank will be about 5ft high with a base of about 8ft so stuff in the
| middle at the bottom will be 3 to 4ft from a surface. I would be sorry
| if in a few years/months time I discovered that it had crawled back out
| to haunt me again!

Very unlikely. It is shallow rooted, so I doubt that it will get
out from below 2'. Bindweed, on the other hand ....


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Nick Maclaren.
 
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