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Help- it's taking over my garden. I had SOME last year, but now I have masses- it's in the grass and through my flower beds.
I try to garden organically, but everything says if I dig it out, it'll spread because the tubers will split and propagate. Is there anything that eats it? an indigenous insect? Sabre Tooth Tiger? Anything?
Or will it have to be glyphosate?
I tried to be nice to it and leave it alone, but it's trying to take over the universe with a solid base n my poor garden......
And how is it spreading- I can see where parches have spread out, but there are new patches everywhere. Am I carrying bits on my feet? Is the dog? Do they self seed metres away? Am I not killing it thoroughly in my composting?
If you get the impression I'm alarmed, you're right....
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Hi AQ
You certainly have lots of ideas to be going on with.
I don't suppose you fancy cooking it?
http://www.eatweeds.co.uk/lesser-celandine-recipe
Best wishes Chris
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Hello Aberdeenshire Quine
I've had to learn to love it in the back garden border, One year I dug a sack of it out, and when it sprung up the following year I sprayed it with glycophosphate and optimisticly replanted it. A couple of years on its as dense as ever!
I think you need religous zeal to keep on top of it. The short stems develop lots of tiny tubers that scatter everywhere so I think the best time to spray or dig it is early on before the little tubers develop, but then in subsequent years constantly remove survivors - lack of vigalance in this respect lands you back in squre one(like me!)