[shaun]

horse radish can be a right pain to get rid of

[jaycee]

Ground elder was first imported into this country as a herb.  It's great in salads.  Try planting a bit of that on your allotment!

If you could only see the forest of ground elder that spreads more and more through the plants every year you would think twice about planting it!
I dig it out by the bucketful and it seems to thank me by growing twice as vigorously.  It forces it`s self  inbetween the gunnera and hydragers and everywhere else. Its bright green leaves seem to mock me. We have eaten it as a veg and it tastes OK but there is a limit!

[Heather_S]

Our's appears to be sick and dying of something or other. Want me to send you some dying bits and hope it kills off your ground elder?  

(and yes I'm serious, i double-checked it was ground elder today and saw that what is left of it looks very poorly)

[John]

Does biological warfare come under the organic standards?

[jaycee]

Our's appears to be sick and dying of something or other. Want me to send you some dying bits and hope it kills off your ground elder?  

(and yes I'm serious, i double-checked it was ground elder today and saw that what is left of it looks very poorly)

I think it may be the lack of rain that`s done it in.
No chance of that here in the Western Hioghlands!
Jean

[Heather_S]

I wouldn't expect lack of rain to cause strange speckled patterns on the leaves like a disease rather than just falling over looking ill. It's not sprung back with the last week or so of rain either.

[ytyynycefn]

You could make a fortune selling infectious dying ground elder on eBay  :shock:

Is comfrey really that good?  We don't have much in the way of garden centres round here, and it seems to be really pricey (when you can get it) on the net.

Mel

[John]

Get it from organic gardening catalogue - you only need the minimum order and you'll be able to propogate from bits of root next year.

Wonderful stuff!

[shaun]

john if you get on the audlem road past the secret bunker,there is loads growing on the right hand side verge,seen it this morning on the way home,i was going to stop but i was soaked to the skin and it was teaming down.(save some for me) .

[John]

The secret bunker - kills me seeing signs 'To the Secret Bunker'

I've got loads of Bocking 14 growing on the plot -  but thanks for the thought.