Knotweed!

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Permalink Reply by Dansette Dave on February 10, 2017 at 10:12

Know a friend who cannot remortgage in east Finchley as the next door garden has knotweed..and next door don't need to move or remortgage, so doing nothing about it. It costs something like 3k for a 5 yr programme to errradicate..if the next door neighbour lets you into their garden!..Anyone found a good mortgage company who do mortgages given certificates of erradication would be put in place ? They'll be lucky !

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Permalink Reply by Matt Salusbury on February 12, 2017 at 16:41

I seem to recall reading somewhere that there's a particularly nasty local strain of Japanese knotweed called the "Haringey hybrid" strain.

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Permalink Reply by Gordon T on February 12, 2017 at 20:51

Sounds very bad but in fact the mutant ninja local (hybrid between Japanese knotweed and Russian Vine) falls over in winter so it isn't as resilient as either of its antecedents. Phew.

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Permalink Reply by EMC2 on February 12, 2017 at 21:38

Good Lord Gordon, what else lurks in Railway Fields?

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