It's a long job. I wouldn't dig up the plants you have, I'd weed round them. But don't feel too intimidated, it's just a matter of pulling up the ones you can see, now, and then catching new growth as it comes up. I don't wait until I am officially gardening, I pull up each blighter any time I pass the bed they grow in. It's not nearly as bad as bindweed and as for Japanese knotweed....just be glad you don't have that!
Thanks everyone for your words of encouragement :-), interesting that strong competition helps to keep it at bay, think it will need to be patrol til autumn then enlist help to clear and clean, might be good excuse to redesign front garden n buy some new plants :-), putting them in clean pots for now of course 0:).
My two infested borders are densely planted and yet this prolonged cool, wet spring has seen the mare's tail proliferate like never before. Patrolling till autumn is a good plan and so is clearing and cleaning and redesigning as long as you can blitz the stuff before re-planting.
Good luck.
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It's a long job. I wouldn't dig up the plants you have, I'd weed round them. But don't feel too intimidated, it's just a matter of pulling up the ones you can see, now, and then catching new growth as it comes up. I don't wait until I am officially gardening, I pull up each blighter any time I pass the bed they grow in. It's not nearly as bad as bindweed and as for Japanese knotweed....just be glad you don't have that!
Thanks everyone for your words of encouragement :-), interesting that strong competition helps to keep it at bay, think it will need to be patrol til autumn then enlist help to clear and clean, might be good excuse to redesign front garden n buy some new plants :-), putting them in clean pots for now of course 0:).
My two infested borders are densely planted and yet this prolonged cool, wet spring has seen the mare's tail proliferate like never before. Patrolling till autumn is a good plan and so is clearing and cleaning and redesigning as long as you can blitz the stuff before re-planting.
Good luck.