Thanks guys it's a large area that just hasn't been worked since we bought the house two years ago so a bit of a mission whatever we do. It's beyond our stream so very damp and not much other planting so perfect habitat for it to go mental. We also have woodland angelica there so that will need to go too. Appreciate the advice though 🙂
I wouldn’t get rid of Angelica sylvestris … control it a bit maybe but not get rid of it. It’s a gorgeous plant, great for a woodland planting and incredibly good for wildlife … particularly pollinators and night flying moths that are so important to bats.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
OK that's good advice I read that it was quite invasive and can cause skin blisters so was thinking about safety but if it's good for the wildlife then we'll reconsider
There are lots of similar plants to angelica, many of them are edible, and some can cause skin irritation, but giant hogweed is the one that's particularly nasty to get on your skin or eyes https://www.woodlandtrust.org.uk/blog/2019/06/giant-hogweed-facts/ . Be careful around it if you're not sure what you've got.
Doncaster, South Yorkshire. Soil type: sandy, well-drained
Normal hogweed, carrots, parsnips, rue.. they all cause blisters with the addition of sunlight. I would use roundup on bindweed, or on smaller areas (which yours isn't) hoe the top off every time it comes up. Luckily bindweed is about the only nasty weed I don't have.
We get bindweed occasionally, it must creep under the concrete base panel of the party fence from next door's garden which has a lot of it.
I keep digging it out, not a problem as we've a bed of many azaleas in this area.
So it's easy to spot. It disappears for a while but then comes up in a different place.
A "weeding tool" I use occassionally is a paint stripping hot air gun, this can kill off some small weeds without having to resort to chemicals which might start to grow in some areas particularly between paving stones. You can concentrate it on an area of a couple of square inches.
Posts
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
When you don't even know who's in the team
S.Yorkshire/Derbyshire border