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How deep can ground elder survive?
In message , Roderick Orr-Ewing
writes My apologies - another question about ground elder but I have looked back and can't find the answer to this one in previous postings. (Although there have been so many I cold have missed it.) 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. Hit the stuff with glyphosate a couple of weeks before you start digging and it probably won't grow back at all. My guess is anything more than a couple of feet under will not easily grow back. But it depends how much ground elder root there is in your soil. 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! Thistles do that... Regards, -- Martin Brown |
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