Allotment Gardening Advice Help Chat
Growing => Grow Your Own => Topic started by: catweazle on September 25, 2011, 21:22
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right err...
its not on the allotments yet but its getting very close
our site is fairly small (20 plots) at the top of the site is a path that used to be single track road. at the other side of the path is waste ground that used to be more allotments. its here that the JKW is growing. the councill has been told multiple times and no action has been taken. it has now reached the edge of the path. i hopeing that the fact it was a road will slow it down as once it crosses the path its onto the plots.
as i have said the council don't want to know so what can be done?
many thanks CW
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We got rid of it by a licensed contractor injecting the stems with professional strength glyphosate in the spring.
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Got similar problem next to our private garden but have spoken to owners of derelict plot and we are going to spray with glyphosate late spring/early summer + keep a strip grassed and keep mowing it. My OH , a Scientist, reckons this will keep it at bay. As its a notifiable weed surely you won't get into trouble if you spray it or keep it trimmed?
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If you can get rid of it rather than just keep it at bay, then I would do that. Mortgages can be refused on houses with JK on their garden or boundary - it is potentially that much trouble.
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I am led to believe, that if you cut JKW and bits are left on your mower, then that can drop off a regrow elsewhere. If this is right then mowing could indirectly spread it..! I have been involved with spraying JKW for some years on local sites, but even triple strength spray normally only keeps it a bay. Occasionally it does die off but more often is just knocked back. I have heard of injecting the stems and would be interested to know at what strength its injected. Think the environment agency may use this method?
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I suspect it was neat industrial strength in the syringe. He waited till the stems were growing properly, then injected them and spray painted each one as soon as he'd injected it - otherwise one stem soon looks like another!
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Some useful info on legal aspects of knotweed. I think the 'private nuisance' section might be useful.
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Some useful info on legal aspects of knotweed. I think the 'private nuisance' section might be useful.
I disagree. Proof is required that the respondent deliberately and for his own purpose brought the JK onto the land and kept / collected it there.