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Thanks !
I have some of the "Paint-on" and I will try that if the spray doesn't work. Of course it is the ROOTS of the G.E. which arer the spreading problem.

I have laid up treaure for myself, in Heaven, by sparing a little Fern, which I tried to kill last year, but has survived.
It is troublesome, since it is growing in a path, sloping from the door to the rear garden.
TBA thinks it untidy, but I appreciate the efforts of the poor little thing --- OK I am an old Softie !!

I think that ground elder was introduced by the Romans as a food crop. Apparently the leaves are cooked like spinach. Doubtless if you develope a taste for it, it will disappear.

DavidRawlins wrote:I think that ground elder was introduced by the Romans as a food crop. Apparently the leaves are cooked like spinach. Doubtless if you develope a taste for it, it will disappear.

Before, or after, the application of the weedkiller ?

Hi

At this time of year the young leaves of nettle tops are delicious and full of iron! I have taken several trimmings from the paddock and simmered them for the dogs' breakfasts, they go down very well poured over biscuits and stirred through with a little salmon/wheatgerm oil.

Good for coats and pigmentation and they eat them with gusto.

Haven't been brave enough to serve them up for human meals yet though!

Liz

Liz Jay wrote:Hi

At this time of year the young leaves of nettle tops are delicious and full of iron! I have taken several trimmings from the paddock and simmered them for the dogs' breakfasts, they go down very well poured over biscuits and stirred through with a little salmon/wheatgerm oil.

Liz

We dry them for the horses - the sting disappears (have no idea where it goes) and we crumble over their hay or hard feed, just like the other herbs.

xx

I have tried "Nettle Soup" which is quite drinkable, but I would not put it at the top of the Menu !