Not-at-all pastoral thoughts

[mme_hardy]

Someday I am going to track down the person or persons who recommended pink knotweed as a ground cover and there will be no survivors.

Comments

[perennialanna]

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.

[caulkhead]

So what on earth *do* you do with the garden waste, if you can't burn it, can't compost it, and can't send it to the tip?

[perennialanna]

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.