Ground Elder.

After posting this,
http://gardenerscorner.co.uk/forum/...-need-help-wild-flower-garden.html#post425161
Shiney was kind enough to post that ground elder is a bigger problem that I first thought.
After doing to research I am now wondering what the best way to approach this problem is.
This is where I am at now, note the two large piles of GE.



Should I put grass down and keep mowing? Wait for the ground elder to return and blast it with roundup?


Any help guys would be greatly appreciated.

 

Hi


Looking good are you making a lawn , as if thats the case , regular mowing will get rid of the GE and if me I woudnt bother spraying
Spruce

 

Cheers guys,
I took a huge amount out of it and have levelled it. The plan was initially to have a wild flower bed but I now think a lawn and regular mowing might help get rid of it? I then planned to heavily mulch around the rose bushes and yellow hedge like thing, grow grass then keep mowing and using round up on any elder that shows up.
I am pretty sure there is some in the hedge still.

I dont mind not using lawn clippings on the compost, to be fair this is just the start, my garden is a good ten times bigger out the back and its full of elder to. I have another smaller bit of garden beside this bit that also needs digging and levelling.

Because the back of the house is so un-level it might need rotovating so this wont help my cause any, I think I should really concentrate on control rather than eradication , I'l never get rid of it totally I don't think.