Ground elder

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I can't get rid of ground elder, and so I have decided to check out recipes for delicious dishes. Although the idea of eating my enemy is abhorrent, perhaps it will help to make the agony of living with ground elder more bearable.

Lyn

My garden was covered in ground elder I just picked away at it bit by bit, I find it quite therapeutic trailing the roots along. I have got rid of it now, just the odd bit comes up, easliy got out.
take a border at a time, do that bit thoroughly before moving on to the next patch.   

a1154

I try and keep on top of it, but I’m always amazed by how strongly it comes back at this time of year. It is quite depressing. Not tried eating it yet. 

The_herpetologist

It's neck and neck with Japanese knotweed and Horsetail for the accolade of 'worst thing to find in your garden'.

nutcutlet

Enchanter's Nightshade is my ground elder. Is that edible?

Fire

Isn't EN pretty easy to pull up and get rid of?

nutcutlet

easy to pull the tops off but every tiny little piece left behind is a new plant

Fire

I'm not finding that. I just pull it up and it's gone. Maybe mine are not very healthy plants to start with.

nutcutlet

Interesting, it's very persistent here and seems to react to weeding out by increasing

Fire

Where mine come up is not very fertile, mostly from an uncared garden next door.

nutcutlet

Could be it though my ground is mostly poor. They look sick in some places but don't stop growing