In article <2edt24drk48va8ep1gskos9gl3ttl4ro40@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>, VivienB
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> writes:
|> On 16 May 2008 09:41:56 GMT, nmm1@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
(Nick Maclaren) wrote:
|>
|> >You probably mean comfrey or alkanet. In my experience, alkanet
|> >doesn't regrow from from far below ground, so digging it out to
|> >4-6" down is successful.
|>
|> I have had it regrow, having dug much deeper than that.
Are you SURE it came from the deep roots? I thought it happened to
me, so I checked (more than once). No - I had missed (or buried) a
piece of near-surface root fairly close to the surface in every case.
|> It so happens someone asked Helen Yemm about this, her response is at:
|> http://tinyurl.com/3twmqo
That doesn't make it right. I am pretty sure that she, like most
other people who say the same thing, have failed to dig out alkanet,
and have assumed that it regrew drom deep roots - without checking.
Also, she is 'encouraged' to recommend the products sold by the
newspaper's advertisers. The companies complain to the proprietors
if they feel that such writers are pu****ng alternative solutions
too hard, and the Daily Telegraph does not have a wonderful reputation
in that respect, even by the standards of UK newspapers.
Alkanet is fairly resistant to glyphosate, incidentally. I have
tried that a few times, and find digging much more effective.
Regards,
Nick Maclaren.
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