[NatureNS] a positive aside on Japanese Knotweed

From: "Marian Fulton & Art Harding" <fulton.harding@ns.sympatico.ca>
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My aunt and uncle who live just outside of Parrsboro, have had a patch of
Japanese Knotweed for at least 40 years; it has not expanded if anything the
patch has gotten smaller the last 10 years.  I think other plants have
crowded it out.

On the other hand, someone purchased a house down the street from me a few
years ago and decided he wanted to get rid of a small patch in his back
yard.  The more he tried the more the patch expanded.  It was almost like
watching a cartoon.  The faster he tried to dig it out and till it up the
more it grew.  Trees have grown up between here and the patch so I am not
sure how that battle is going.

Marian Fulton 
Hantsport 

-----Original Message-----
From: naturens-owner@chebucto.ns.ca [mailto:naturens-owner@chebucto.ns.ca]
On Behalf Of Margaret E.Millard
Sent: 17 August 2008 00:52
To: naturens@chebucto.ns.ca
Subject: Re: [NatureNS] a positive aside on Japanese Knotweed

well I can't get to mow it, it is growing up through a jumble of dumped 
concrete. I mow where I can get to flat and stopped digging it as I realised

that was fruitless, but this spring I did try pouring acid I purchased from 
a fish plant down into the stalks but it didn't bat an eye. It has travelled

across our yard and now is in the ditch across the road and I do worry about

that blocking up the culverts as we can get a lot of water coming through 
there in a tropical storm. As I said birds love it.
Marg Millard, White Point, Queens
http://margmillard.ca


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