Plant taking over my garden

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    Hi
    I moved into my new home about 3 years ago and been battling this weed/plant around my borders and it just keeps coming back. Its creeping into the garden and is very resilient. Does anybody know what it is and how I can eradicate it? Many thanks
     
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      Hi @Andy4157, and welcome to GC :sign0016:

      It would be easier to identify if we could see a picture, however I think you need to have made ten posts before you can post a picture, and have at least one 'like' (which you now have ;))

      Either keep chatting to us all here on a few threads (you'll be surprised how easy it is to get to ten posts), give us a description of the plant you are concerned about, or if it helps I can PM you my email address and you can email me the picture which I can then post on your behalf?

      Either way, I hope you enjoy GC, and I am sure that you will get the best of advice to help cure your problem.
       
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        Thanks for your quick reply! if you could send me your email address that would be great! Thank you
         
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        You're welcome - PM on its way :)
         
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        Just read my tea leaves and I recon its Ground Elder or Creeping Buttercup :stirpot: ;):)
         
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          in mid ground Elder crisis @Andy4157 so you have my sincere sympathy.
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            Welcome to GC Andy. :) Could it be ivy?
             
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            Hi...welcome to GC :sign0016: :dbgrtmb:
             
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            I'll guess Cinquefoil as that hasn't come up for ages (unless you've got it in your garden).
             
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            Thank you everyone for your replies. Having trawled the internet it appears to be ground elder. It has a mass of viney white root in the soil. A few people have been suggesting glysophate? I dug up about 3 metres wide one metre deep of root and it killed me. Got another 50 metres to go, some is growing underneath a length of hedgerow
             
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              Apologies for taking a while to come back - pictures on behalf of @Andy4157 confirm that it is indeed ground elder

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              It might take a few applications of glyphosate to get shot of it - looks as though it is growing with vigour at the moment.
               
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                Psychic Admin scores again :snork:

                You can eat it to death, but its just not very nice :sad:

                It was planted in Monastic Gardens as a cure for Gout :)
                 
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                  Well done zigs! And thank you fat controller for posting the pictures. I think its going to take some commitment to get rid of it. I got very frustrated with it one time and put the rotovater through it and thought I could churn it to death...two weeks later little shoots were popping through the soil laughing at me
                   
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                    You are more than welcome :)

                    I suspect that rotovating it might have made matters worse as it grows from rhizomes (goodness, get me going all 'gardeney' - looks like I might just be learning! :snork:)
                     
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                      Ooo no, if you chop it up, each bit of root makes a new plant :sad: Keep picking it till the roots are starved, mamoth job though :phew:
                       
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