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please help me
antony collis
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Hi new to the forum and a gardening beginner, weve been in our new house a year so got a good idea of whats grown and how things look, but I seem to have one massive problem that at the minute is draining the fun out of my garden I seem to be going 1 step forward and 2 back. I have what seems like a weed that is taking over my garden and for the life of me cant find out what it is, there popping up all over wherever I look tangling with plants ruining my borders, I dig them out then a week later there sprouting up again, ive downed tools this morning thinking I'm out of my depth I don't know what to do, any help as to how to clear them and get the soil ready for planting would be greatly appreciated.
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It looks like a mixture of arums. Arum italicum and maculatum. The latter is our native 'Lords and Ladies'. It's irrelevant which, they both work the same way.
Every tiny little corm grows, you need to get them out to stop them coming back. But if you remove the leaves they won't recur this year.
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thank you nutcutlet for your reply, I was worried as I was digging them out there was tiny roots left in the soil, I thought they might have been growing from them, I thought it would be a never ending task removing all the tiny roots, but if there growing from corms then I feel happier that I'm slowly removing them.
thank you for your advice
It can be done, it's the ones that have seeded into clumps of perennials that are difficult
In the sticks near Peterborough