Ground elder... The perennial weed that (along with bindweed and horsetail - both of which are very much at home in the garden, thank you), when he was asked on BBC Radio 4's Gardener's Question Time how to deal with them, prompted Bob Flowerdew to advise, "Move house!"
That option not viable, for the past three weeks, I 've been bottom up in a flower bed, grubbing up the tall green stalks (which had reached a rather unexpected 24 inches high) and long white stringy roots. It's given me plenty of time to consider the extraordinary properties of the clay soil in which they are buried and the relationship between them (but more of that below).
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