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Weed problem
Sheila Byrne
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Please, Please can someone give me some advise on how to get rid of this pesky weed - I dont want to know how to eat it i just need it gone...... I am beginning to get obsessive now because pulling it up does not work, turn your back and there it is again Grrrrr
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Weekly attention with a Dutch hoe. Get it before it seeds.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Is it def bitter cress Sheila as I don't mind this weed as its easy pulled up and roots not too bad? Sorry it's driving you mad
Maybe as I have really wet clay chalk soil it's easier for me 
It is easily pulled up but there's always another to take its place. It often comes in with GC bought plants and once it's seeded it's everywhere.
In the sticks near Peterborough
vigilance and persistence is all I can suggest I'm afraid! this is one of "my weeds" as I think of them - the ones that pop up everywhere in your garden when your back is turned. In my garden, bittercress are always trying to sneak in, and the annoying thing is that they are quite small when they flower and set seed and this seems to be at any time of year. Very easy to miss, especially in the winter when we all spend less time in the garden. I also have to keep on top of Herb Robert, chickweed, cleavers and sycamore seedlings. I just try to think of them as green manure and be grateful (touch wood) that I haven't got some of the more pernicious, deep rooted ones. If you have a patch where they are winning the battle and little else grows, except maybe bulbs, might be worth covering the ground with newspaper and a good layer of mulch. This will smother them and prevent their seeds generating and of course will all rot down over winter.
Thank you for all of your comments - we have so many, weed killer has not worked, think as it is winter we will go down the news paper and mulch road - thank you Ginglygangly
part of the secret is to pull it up before it seeds and don't put it in the compost bin. I have a knife-shaped tool I carry around with me for lifting things like that and plantain, and a bucket for pernicious things including ivy (spread by the birds) and dandelions and ground elder which go iunto the council garden waste recycling bin.