If you want a thread removed you need to contact the mods @corby008 . You can PM Daniel Haynes using the messaging facility within your account Unlikely to get a response to day though. As you've deleted whatever you've posted though, the thread will just disappear anyway, so it won't really matter
They have good survival tactics. Dig down deep, feel it loosen, and gently, gently pull up by the thickest part of the stem. And all you get is leaves and stem.
The following year use a big fork. Dig down really deep, feel it's free, and gently, gently ease it out. You'll get leaves, stem, attached to a big fat white thing.
The year after that...... Repeat last year's efforts, but maybe use a pickaxe to get very very deep. Gently, gently, gently, ease it slowly out. If you are really lucky you'll have leaves, stem, big fat white thing still attached to dirty brown fat thing.
Then all you have to worry about is missing any emerging babies sprouting from tiny tubers thanks to birdsown seeds.
Not in my experience I'm afraid. I once doused two big clumps with Roundup as a last resort. They withered away in very satisfying fashion. I planted something in between the two dead clumps of arum. Big mistake. The arums were back with a vengeance the following year. I just pull the leaves up now and park big stones on the spot so that I don't go thinking " Hey, there's a spot for that plant...." I can't dig them out because of tree roots, and you may have the same problem if the tuber is under or inside the wall. Just have a go, but gently! The stem parts very easily from the white tuber, and the white tuber parts very easily from the brown one. As I say, survival tactics! Good luck!
Yup I agree with all that! Somehow the tiny bulblets that form around the parent bulb have the ability drag themselves deeper into the soil - several types of bulb can do this - and as @Woodgreen says it seems no matter how deep you dig there are always more deeper that pop up the following year I have had some success using a strong form of glyphosate (glyphosate 360) and it did kill a patch a couple of months ago but there's still lots dotted about the garden
Knowledge is knowing that a tomato is a fruit. Wisdom is not putting it in a fruit salad.
Mmm sounds like The Day of the Triffids. At the risk of repeating myself, 'Would someone please remove this from under a Chaenomeles without knocking the wall down from which it's growing? It sounds hellishly invasive.'
If you've got something with glyphosate in it just keep spraying or dabbing a bit on the leaves every week. You can enjoy the beauty of the flower, but don't let the seeds ripen as the birds eat them then drop them here and there elsewhere in your garden. I learned the hard way
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Unlikely to get a response to day though.
As you've deleted whatever you've posted though, the thread will just disappear anyway, so it won't really matter
@philippasmith2
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
About 25 years ago I had one and was amazed at the stunning flower and berries.
25 years later I'm still trying to get rid of it 😡
Wisdom is not putting it in a fruit salad.
Dig down deep, feel it loosen, and gently, gently pull up by the thickest part of the stem.
And all you get is leaves and stem.
The following year use a big fork.
Dig down really deep, feel it's free, and gently, gently ease it out.
You'll get leaves, stem, attached to a big fat white thing.
The year after that......
Repeat last year's efforts, but maybe use a pickaxe to get very very deep.
Gently, gently, gently, ease it slowly out.
If you are really lucky you'll have leaves, stem, big fat white thing still attached to dirty brown fat thing.
Then all you have to worry about is missing any emerging babies sprouting from tiny tubers thanks to birdsown seeds.
I once doused two big clumps with Roundup as a last resort. They withered away in very satisfying fashion.
I planted something in between the two dead clumps of arum.
Big mistake. The arums were back with a vengeance the following year.
I just pull the leaves up now and park big stones on the spot so that I don't go thinking " Hey, there's a spot for that plant...."
I can't dig them out because of tree roots, and you may have the same problem if the tuber is under or inside the wall.
Just have a go, but gently! The stem parts very easily from the white tuber, and the white tuber parts very easily from the brown one.
As I say, survival tactics! Good luck!
Somehow the tiny bulblets that form around the parent bulb have the ability drag themselves deeper into the soil - several types of bulb can do this - and as @Woodgreen
says it seems no matter how deep you dig there are always more deeper that pop up the following year
I have had some success using a strong form of glyphosate (glyphosate 360) and it did kill a patch a couple of months ago but there's still lots dotted about the garden
Wisdom is not putting it in a fruit salad.
At the risk of repeating myself, 'Would someone please remove this from under a Chaenomeles without knocking the wall down from which it's growing? It sounds hellishly invasive.'
You can enjoy the beauty of the flower, but don't let the seeds ripen as the birds eat them then drop them here and there elsewhere in your garden.
I learned the hard way
Wisdom is not putting it in a fruit salad.