Harringay, Haringey - So Good they Spelt it Twice!
Japanese Knotweed enjoying the spring sunshine in Langham Road!!!!!!!!!
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Permalink Reply by Justin Guest on
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Actually, my neighbours have some in their garden and I doubt they know what it is or that their landlord will sort it. I figured I would have a go myself.
With that, does anyone have a bit of Round Up going spare. I do not want to have to buy a whole tub for the small patch they have that needs dealing with...
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Permalink Reply by Old-Age-Emporium(OAE) on
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Why did Basho never pen a Japanese Knotwood haiku? So much more eternally enduring than the ephemeral cherry.
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Not so OAE. Japanese Knotweed is not as enduring in its native Japan- there it fits nicely into its own ecosystem and is subject to the normal relationships with pests etc that keep it in check. Take it outside that finely balance environment to an area where those relationships no longer exist and you have space perhaps for the Bard of Barnsley to pen a few lines, something along the lines of...
There was young man from Leeds, who ate a packet of seeds
In less than an hour, his nose was a flower and his hair a bundle of (Japanese Knot) weeds
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Will do Lauren, thanks
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I've noticed some in a Sydney Road front garden as well, just a few doors down from me.
No sign in ours yet...
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As Justin mentioned, get the Roundup on any you see now. BTW some people are rightly sensitive to Roundup as it has a strong association to bee population decline. However, used on JK now when its not flowering should be no prob.
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Permalink Reply by HarringayBirder on
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And (what I believe is JK) in our road (but a few houses down and on the other side of the street).
And in Finsbury Park, on the banks of the path leading to the cycle store...
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