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Help please 😀

Sally DickinsonSally Dickinson Posts: 5
in Problem solving
Help please, I’m being taken over by this plant....can anyone identify it for me? Any help gratefully received 😀 Sally 
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  • Ladybird4Ladybird4 Posts: 37,906
    Hello Sally. It looks like the dreaded ground elder to me. Almost impossible to eradicate as any tiny bit of root left behind will re-grow. You will just have to keep digging - and digging and digging it out.
    Cacoethes: An irresistible urge to do something inadvisable
  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    Ground elder ... introduced by the Romans as a vegetable ... you can either regard it as an invasive weed that you'll never quite get the better of, or harvest the young leaves and cook them ... I like them steamed and used with mashed potato as a sort of Champ

    http://www.wildplantforager.com/blog/edible-weed-ground-elder  

    http://www.thejournal.co.uk/news/north-east-news/you-cant-beat-ground-elder-4428125 

     :) 

    Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.





  • Sally DickinsonSally Dickinson Posts: 5
    That’s a great idea 😀 thanks so much. 
  • DampGardenManDampGardenMan Posts: 1,054
    Ladybird4 said:
    Hello Sally. It looks like the dreaded ground elder to me. Almost impossible to eradicate as any tiny bit of root left behind will re-grow. You will just have to keep digging - and digging and digging it out.
    I buried some under ground membrane for about twenty years. Lifted the ground membrane for some reason, and within a week the ground elder was back. It's indestructible ...
  • Hostafan1Hostafan1 Posts: 34,889
    it doesn't like glyphosate.
    Just a thought.
    Devon.
  • BijdezeeBijdezee Posts: 1,484
    What have the romans ever done for us? B***y ground elder thats what... 
  • Ladybird4Ladybird4 Posts: 37,906
    Not forgetting rabbits Bijdezee - although for a while there was some thought that it might have been the Normans.
    Cacoethes: An irresistible urge to do something inadvisable
  • DampGardenManDampGardenMan Posts: 1,054
    Hostafan1 said:
    it doesn't like glyphosate.
    Just a thought.
    Neither do I! But I take your point ...
  • TopbirdTopbird Posts: 8,355
    I used glyphosate on a large patch. Just one application was enough to seriously weaken it and, since then, I've dug out any small bits as soon as they show their little green heads above the ground. Not eradicated - but it is well controlled (touch wood!).
    Heaven is ... sitting in the garden with a G&T and a cat while watching the sun go down
  • Ladybird4Ladybird4 Posts: 37,906
    Hi @Sally Dickinson
    I have a very sensitive track pad on my laptop and I think I may have inadvertently flagged your post as I was scooting around the page. I haven't a clue how to undo it until I can speak with Nora on Monday. I do apologise so please ignore any reference to a 'flag' (I don't even know how it works!) as it was a mistake on my part.
    Cacoethes: An irresistible urge to do something inadvisable
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