Have you got Japanese knotweed in your garden? Kate Hodson (the Woodstock stationer) www.thewoodstockstationer.co.uk inspired me to do my next blog on this. She cannot find a solution to the problem in her garden and she is not alone.
The chances are if you have Japanese knotweed in your garden you will know about it because it is very, very invasive and almost impossible to eradicate. Glyphosate is the best weedkiller on the market as it is ‘systemic.’ This means it penetrates through the whole plant and travels to the roots. You will need a very strong solution and are likely only to ‘keep it under control’ using this method. There’s a great deal of information on the web about Japanese knotweed, but the Japanese knotweed alliance organisation has a particularly informative one:
Recently there has been news coverage of a new herbicide that may help:
And there is a possibliity that a plant-eating predators from Japan may be introduced:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/7531221.stm
Only time will tell if these are the solutions to a problem that has become entrenched in the British countryside.
Only time will tell if these are the solutions to a problem that has become entrenched in the British countryside.
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