Asbo's if you cannot control Japanese knotweed

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What are your thoughts on this. It's a terrible plant and creates havoc. My mates old place had issues with its foundations due to Japanese knotweed. Now you face asbo's if you cannot control the uncontrollable. Seems OTT.

What do you think is an effective control of knotweed. Anyone here managed to eradicate it from their property?
 
Apologies it was meant only as a joke - Never had a problem with Japanese Knot Weed after I planted Russian Vine.
Can't find the shed though
 
I have heard that it is possible to get rid of but very very difficult, Massive regular doses of high power herbicides and constant vigilance and picking by hand. Believe it was on GQT
 
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Does this mean I could be fined as I have this in my collection?

 
Repeated use of round-up will eventually kill it. I don't believe it's quite as bad as it's made out to be, more scare-mongering by the insurance companies as much as anything.

I read an article recently that suggested common ivy was just as bad, I'll see if I can find it.
 
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Cartus said:
Repeated use of round-up will eventually kill it. I don't believe it's quite as bad as it's made out to be, more scare-mongering by the insurance companies as much as anything.

I read an article recently that suggested common ivy was just as bad, I'll see if I can find it.
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I've read similar.
I must admit that in my first flat, good old common ivy ate its way through the window frame in the spare bedroom and grew rather nicely there until I discovered it :lol:

The problem with this knotweed is it's a japonica....it spreads from the root by way of rhizomes...invisible above ground, fast, invasive and very destructive. To get rid you need to dig out ALL of the root system. Leave even a slight bit and eventually it'll start again.

I've never experienced it, but I keep several types of bamboo, and some of them need to be planted within a rhizome barrier to prevent a similar destructive spread.

Simple over-the-counter weedkillers will not kill the immense root network.
 
yes highly invasive and small fragments can survive for years. recommended to cut stems and treat the raw stumps with high concentrate weedkiller............goats love it so let them graze in the area infested
 
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Reminds me of the village mole-catcher.

The Lord in the village found molehills all over his lawn one morning. He contacted the village mole-catcher and told him that when he caught the mole to "inflict upon it the worst imaginable death"

That evening the Lord saw the village mole-catcher to be given the good news that he had indeed caught the mole.

"And did you inflict upon it the worst imaginable death?" the Lord asked the mole-catcher.

"That I did sir" he replied, "I buried him alive!".
 
kennethwfd said:
also the best way to deal with moles
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I grew up on a farm.

You don't want to know how we dealt with them.

Hours of family fun though!
 
Oh go on, tell us.

Did it involve a shovel and a Jack Russell?

Edit: I'm thinking of rats aren't I.
 
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Neat glyphosate is brutal.

There are a few evil ones such as DTT and Lindane but they may be banned.
 
simon ess said:
Oh go on, tell us.

Did it involve a shovel and a Jack Russell?

Edit: I'm thinking of rats aren't I.
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A shovel...or several...was involved!
But no pups. :-)
 
it was on the radio (4) this morning re knotweed.

they were saying that it had to be in full leaf for the herbicide to be effective and had to be injected into the hollow stem and would take many applications and up to 3 years to apply.

They also said that some builders had found it on the land they had bought and had resorted to physically removing all of the soil to a depth in some cases of 3m to ensure they could build on the land sooner than the three years!.

In Japan its growth and spread is held back as it has to survive on volcanic ash and poor soil. Here the conditions are so good it grows seemingly out of control.
 
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TheBigYin said:
It's the only way to be sure...

nuke it from orbit by The Big Yin, on Flickr
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the army alledgly found the DK79 flame weapon (a bit like a cross between a flame thrower and a bazooka) highly effective in dealing with both japanese knot weed and himalayan balsam on salisbury plain.

Since most of us can't lay hands on one injecting it with roundup is probably the way to go
 
DDT was banned in the UK in 1984. I think it can still be found in the food chain even now. Apart from a few selective herbicides, AFAIK Glyphosate or Roundup is really the only 'approved' general herbicide in use, it's taken down into the plants roots to kill them.
 
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Cartus said:
DDT was banned in the UK in 1984. I think it can still be found in the food chain even now. Apart from a few selective herbicides, AFAIK Glyphosate or Roundup is really the only 'approved' general herbicide in use, it's taken down into the plants roots to kill them.
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I always thought DDT was an insecticide! and yes it was banned in the 80's
apparently it is a pesticide.
well there ya go, you learn something new every day
 
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