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What is this weed

mawallace44mawallace44 Posts: 60
in Problem solving
Help. Can someone help me re this weed.
It came last year and its back with vengeance this year.
It seems to spread roots underground. 
Tried roundup to no avail 

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  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505
    Ground elder?
    In London. Keen but lazy.
  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    Look like ground elder to me too 😖 

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





  • LindzHLindzH Posts: 37
    Yes, I think ground elder too. If so it is edible, as we munched on it on a spring foraging course we went on. 
  • Robert WestRobert West Posts: 241
    edited April 2023
    IF you can dig up the whole area down to at least 18in and remove EVERY last piece of root. Otherwise you've got it for life. That stuff does NOT give in. If it's a small patch try and eradicate it now before it becomes a big patch. 

    Oh and when I say every last piece of root I mean every last piece. It can resprout from pieces less than an inch long! 
  • yholland1yholland1 Posts: 8
    Ground elder. I managed to clear an orchard of it with strong weed killer in some places, and then a group of chickens to keep it gone for the second and third year. Awful stuff. 
  • Wild_VioletWild_Violet Posts: 221
    I just keep pulling it out to try to contain it. Made a mistake several years ago by relocating a rhubarb plant from one border to another and ended up with GE in the new location too. 
  • GardenerSuzeGardenerSuze Posts: 5,692
    If you have a bad infestation it will take years to clear. Old carpet or membrane for 18 months to exclude light is one way. Chances are it will still come back.
    I have worked as a Gardener for 24 years. My latest garden is a new build garden on heavy clay.
  • bédébédé Posts: 3,095
    Turn the garden into lawn for a few years, and keep mowing.
     location: Surrey Hills, England, ex-woodland acidic sand.
    "Have nothing in your garden that you don't know to be useful, or believe to be beautiful."
  • bcpathomebcpathome Posts: 1,313
    Yes it’s ground elder ,my sympathies to you as you have hard work ahead of you. 
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