Ground Elder

[Arfermo]

Some people eat the young leaves in salads, they have a nutty flavour I am told --or perhaps it was the people who were nutty?

The Romans introduced ground elder as a vegetable. Glyphosate where you can - otherwise tedious digging and careful extraction of every morsel of the plant/seedlings. And don't let it flower and seed. Japanese knotweed and many other importations have become pests, some notifiable. On a trip to NZ some years ago I came across a group of people who were cursing a Brit higher up a gulley who had imported crocosmia that they couldn't readily control even with several treatments of glyphosate. NZ are also plagued with possums, pampas grass, cats and many other importations by the huntin' 7 shootin' fraternity, just like Oz. Bit like varroa really. Will humans never learn!!!!