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wtg
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I had no idea.

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Oh, No, Not Knotweed!

It grows rapidly. It’s nearly impossible to kill. It’s terrorized England. And now it’s all over my American backyard.


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Gyaaaa!!!!!!!!!!


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There are different kinds. I left my first home when it took over. Ammate helps when cut down and pored in the holes. We did it on one estate. Took a few years.

One recent intro of variegated I heard does not take over. I am not sure, but she is a gardener in CAN that knows her stuff. My variegated kind died!!!


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Sounds like the new kudzu, only worse.


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Wait, we haven't figured out what to do about Kudzu yet and we now have to deal with this???
 
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Apparently the whole kudzu thing more about “the power of American myth-making” than about the actual threat of the plant - found this fascinating as well.

https://www.smithsonianmag.com...ate-south-180956325/


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Apparently the whole kudzu thing more about the power of American mythmaking than about the actual threat of the plant - found this fascinating as well.

https://www.smithsonianmag.com...ate-south-180956325/


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Surely something eats Knotweed.


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And people wonder what those mystery seeds arriving unsolicited from China are!

Sounds like seeds for a few carefully engineered species like this could take over our land mass in no time.

(No! DON'T let your curiosity overcome you and plant them!! Jack 'N the Beanstalks' magic seeds may have been black magic afer all.)


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Japanese Knotweed is the plague here..omg...you cannot cut it back you have to dig it..

It is taking over a wetland area in my neighborhood....ugh..


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Saw something in the N.Y. Times about how the Brooklyn Botanical Garden deals with knotweed. I need to go back and look.


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Maybe an insect.

Get a pair of goats?


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The problem is this.

The stalks have knots in them. Hollow for a bit, then a cross of tissue blocking the hollow stam. Hope that makes sense.

So cutting it back will not kill it, as new material grows.

Pouring weed killer cannot go past the block of tissue across the stem.


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Originally posted by CHAS:
Maybe an insect.

Get a pair of goats?
i have seen goats used. It comes back.


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Goats were used to graze the thistle that threatened open areas near my home in Colorado.
Something like Knotweed might require full time goats just to keep it down.


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