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You can’t dig it up as it sends runners everywhere underground, two to eighteen inches deep, under rocks, amongst tree and shrub roots, tangled in your peony tubers and strangling any other perennials it encounters. Rumor has it that gardeners have sold their houses and moved to get away from it. I’ve chosen to live with it. Every spring as it begins its annual migration through the garden I gird myself for battle and tackle the Front, the line beyond which I won’t let it go. Looking at my house from the road, the garden in front of the sun room, full of tulips in the spring, is goutweed-free. The bed to the left belongs to Him, Mr. Goutweed. I’ll never get him out of there. ....