Spray or paint the ground elder with glyphosate and wait for it to die, as with the bindweed. It must turn brown and wither before you pull it up - that means you've got the roots.
Digging ground elder is just as useless as digging bindweed - every tiny fragment of root left behind will grow
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
I took on a new allotment this year which was full of Bindweed, couch grass and nettles,as the soil was easy to dig I managed to Double Dig and remove most of the roots. Only Bindweed is still coming up which suggests the roots go to undigable depths.I am now treating it with a chemical control which effectively kills the roots.Signs are very good at the moment.
Glyphosate will kill the roots - only you must spray the leaves and then leave them until they are totally dead - that will show that the chemical has travelled back to the roots. See my earlier posts on this thread.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
I have used Glyphosate, bought from Wilkinsons about a month ago, on bindweed that was infesting the edges of the allotment fruit frame round my strawberrys and fruit bushes. I covered the fruit with a heavy duty cover (an old boat cover) and sprayed the leaves. Three weeks later all the bindweed has died back. If it pops back up in the spring I will do the same again, but hopefully the killer has gone down into the roots.
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Spray or paint the ground elder with glyphosate and wait for it to die, as with the bindweed. It must turn brown and wither before you pull it up - that means you've got the roots.
Digging ground elder is just as useless as digging bindweed - every tiny fragment of root left behind will grow
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
me and my other half have just got an allotment digging is fairly easy but was wondering which root killer you used as we have prolific bindweed.
Glyphosate will kill the roots - only you must spray the leaves and then leave them until they are totally dead - that will show that the chemical has travelled back to the roots. See my earlier posts on this thread.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
I have used Glyphosate, bought from Wilkinsons about a month ago, on bindweed that was infesting the edges of the allotment fruit frame round my strawberrys and fruit bushes. I covered the fruit with a heavy duty cover (an old boat cover) and sprayed the leaves. Three weeks later all the bindweed has died back. If it pops back up in the spring I will do the same again, but hopefully the killer has gone down into the roots.
Thank you both for your responses we will try Glyphosate as the allotment we have taken over has a strawberry bed which is covered in bindweed.