[octothorp]

This is going to be the year I defeat the creeping bellflower in my front yard. I started by completely pulling up the lawn, digging a foot down, removing all plant matter I could find, then doing a second pass where I went through all the dirt in detail, finding hopefully all of the rhizomes and as much of the roots I could find.

I've got micro-clover to put down, and at this point I have a couple options. Either:

a) wait a couple weeks, and see what re-emerges in the lawn area. Maybe even water it to speed it up. If the bellflower's first response to the sort of extensive attack is to send up shoots to the surface, this would be good in helping me find any remaining bits of it. However, if the bellflower's response is to regrow the root network, then I'm not really any further ahead.

b) Plant the clover now, so that it's got the best chance to establish itself before the bellflower has a chance to regroup, and of course watch really carefully for bellflower leaves, and aggressively digging up whole rhizomes any time they emerge, and reseeding clover over the patch I dug up.

Anyone got enough experience with bellflower to recommend an approach here?