Topic: can you identify?

[tartonterro]

trying to identify the following plant/weed that is all over my allotment, and keeps coming back
any ideas and suggestions on how to get rid of would be greatly appreciated

[manicscousers]

could be creeping buttercup, keep digging it up if it is, spreads like a strawberry runner, bit of a b*gger  :)

[tartonterro]

you got it in one, just googled it and thats the stuff i have,
now all i need to find out is how to get rid of it

[manicscousers]

luckily, if you keep digging up the runners, they can be a bit tough, they will disappear but you do have to keep at it, better than bindweed  ;D

[tartonterro]

gona try a combination of digging up and using my weed wand, try weaken what i cant get dug out straight away - hopefuly frost etc might finish it off for me

[froglets]

Hi,

frost will slow it down but not kill it off.  It's a british native so quite used to surviving our winters.  It's chemical or manual options for this one.

[Tee Gee]

Its a meadow land plant and I believe it comes on to the plot via farm yard manure i.e. undigested buttercup seed.

I have given up using weedkiller on it as I find it a waste of time (and too expensive) because the next year when I dig in my manure, I find it just defeats the objective.

During winter digging I bag it up and take it to the dump, I don't compost it.

I find hoeing is the best way to keep it in check, particularly at the start of the season as it is emerging.

[artichoke]

It's a cunning weed - if you grab the leaves and pull, they break away from the growing point and the roots, and leave everything in the ground needed to grow again. I use a sharp knife to slice through the roots underneath the growing point as I pull at the leaves. You can leave the white roots in the ground to rot. I compost the plants in tied plastic bags for a year. It is very satisfying tipping out a bag of stone dead buttercup, couch, nettles, bindweed etc, and enriching the ground with it.

[Robert_Brenchley]

You have to get everything out down to the growing points; don't worry too much about the roots. Be persistent; it's not deep rooted, but it will come back from the least little bit. It seeds as well. I had it everywhere at one point, but there's very little now.