Advice on removing hemlock safely from a rural garden

[Hopthegoodgod]

Friend identified hemlock growing down sidw of our garden . I googled and i know its highly toxic if ingested. Has anyone tried to dig out themselers? Cannot ask young lad who does our weeding as its poisonous. So do i get a professional company in? Not a gardener and garden is rural . No children oe animals live in our house. Advice please! Is it going to cost me alot ?

We had it and we have dug it out ourselves. Every year I check for any new growth and dig it up. Wear long sleeves and trousers and good gardening gloves.

I suspect you are possibly confusing water hemlock with normal hemlock? While both are poisonous, it’s the root of water hemlock that is a big risk and must be treated with caution.
If you’re talking about the purple blotched stem hemlock, a bigger cow parsley like plant, you can just use a glysophate type weed killer. It might take two or three years to eradicate it completely. The important thing is not to let it seed. Digging it up would work if you don’t want to use sprays. It can be a very nasty skin and lung irritant in susceptible individuals, so gloves and mask advisable and bag it up securely and dispose of by burning is what I would do.
It’s becoming a real nuisance weed round here - the verges are full of it!