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Identification please

detainerdetainer Posts: 25
in Problem solving
Can anybody  please identify this ( whatever it  is) and more  importantly  HOW do I get rid  of  it??
I tool the  opertunity to do some catch up between downpours in a  little  used  part  of the garden. Cur down a  load  of this years foiliage  only to find the ground strewn with this stuff and  I'd  like  it  OUT? It seems to be rooting and spreading with the shoots branching  off  in all directions. 
Many thanks  .

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  • LynLyn Posts: 23,190
    It’s  buttercups,  the way to get rid of it is to dig it out.   It’s not hard, it’s shallow rooted. 
    Gardening on the wild, windy west side of Dartmoor. 

  • thehplants89208thehplants89208 Posts: 9
    Picking and destroying it from the roots is the best thing, but if you want to use chemical products, you can use products that destroy weeds.

  • detainerdetainer Posts: 25
    many thanks to both  of you

  • Papi JoPapi Jo Posts: 4,254
    thehplants89208 said:
    Picking and destroying it from the roots is the best thing, but if you want to use chemical products, you can use products that destroy weeds.
    ... you can use products that destroy weeds ... and the planet. 😡
  • FairygirlFairygirl Posts: 55,117
    That's a very odd post isn't it @Papi Jo?  :/

    Buttercups are quite easy to get out with a hand fork @detainer, as @Lyn says. The roots are often quite shallow if the plants are small. It may take a couple of sessions, but they're quite easy if the soil's nice and damp.  :)
    It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....



    I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
  • GardenerSuzeGardenerSuze Posts: 5,692
    @detainer It will have enjoyed the wet conditions. Creeping buttercup is a weed you will need to keep up with on a regular basis or as you have found it will find it's way around the garden. Please avoid the weedkiller.
    I have worked as a Gardener for 24 years. My latest garden is a new build garden on heavy clay.
  • detainerdetainer Posts: 25
    Do my best for you  GardnerSuze and thanks
  • Butterfly66Butterfly66 Posts: 970
    If it’s not a space you use, why not let the buttercups stay and enjoy the flowers 🙂
     If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.”—Marcus Tullius Cicero
    East facing, top of a hill clay-loam, cultivated for centuries (7 years by me). Birmingham
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