Is that the same as Japanese knotweed? Because the whole "nuke it from orbit, it's the only way to be sure" stuff is playing out in the High Peak, too.
The page on how to identify, control, and dispose of Japanese knotweed is terrifying. It survives fire, for goodness sake, and is considered controlled waste!
Pink knotweed appears to be legal in the UK, but anyone planting it is still a complete idiot.
I read somewhere that all the knotweed in the UK is genetically identical - effectively, it's all from the same bloody plant that just keeps propagating. Don't know if that's true, but it seems possible, at least.
Our neighbors have a hedge of Japanese knotweed. It is in our side yeard as well, naturally. Three successive occupiers of the house have attempted to get rid of it, to absolutely no avail. I understand that the young shoots can be eaten like asparagus, but I am too suspicious of their motives to try it.
A friend offered me some plume poppy, saying it could vanquish anything. The Japanese knotweed did it in in a season. Not, really, that victorious plume poppy would have been that much of an improvement.
It is the only thing I will use weedkiller on at all - I am 99.5% organic but I have spent the past six summers injecting it with glyphosphate as it creeps through from next door. Last summer was the first summer no shoots appeared (instead I got suckering lilacs from teh other direction, but I can live with that).
I can't compost. I can't let any garden waste off the premises (any garden materials that have been within ten metres of knotweed in any direction are controlled waste). It can regenerate from mere millimetres.
Pile it up at the back, mostly. It might one day turn into compost, but I'm not intervening. There isn't much garden waste, it's mostly paved (doesn't stop knotweed, obviously). The annoying thing is having to throw out kitchen waste rather than compost it like I did in my last house.
By any chance have you read Graydon Saunder's Commonweal series? It involves sorcerers doing the most important task imaginable - killing invasive weeds.
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Is that the same as Japanese knotweed? Because the whole "nuke it from orbit, it's the only way to be sure" stuff is playing out in the High Peak, too.
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Some of my entrenched clumps have tap roots 3/4 inch wide. With @#$@#$ tubers, in one case.
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Pink knotweed appears to be legal in the UK, but anyone planting it is still a complete idiot.
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A friend offered me some plume poppy, saying it could vanquish anything. The Japanese knotweed did it in in a season. Not, really, that victorious plume poppy would have been that much of an improvement.
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I can't compost. I can't let any garden waste off the premises (any garden materials that have been within ten metres of knotweed in any direction are controlled waste). It can regenerate from mere millimetres.
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