Keep out of my garden! This admonition is directed at horseradish, mint, and garlic chives — three incorrigible plants that once disrupted my garden. Once again, it’s time to look around at new growth poking up through the ground, and make sure these plants are gone for good. I now know that the place for such plants is a patch kept in bounds with a lawnmower; or a semi-wild back corner where their unruly manners can be used to advantage, or at least ignored.

By far the worst offender, the most unruly plant, in my experience has been horseradish. Years ago I wisely decided to get rid of some horseradish I foolishly had planted amongst some berry plants. Ha! Try digging it up. The most thorough digging does not remove every bit of root, and even the smallest bits of root resprout leaves an

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