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Index of Subjects ------=_Part_18683_10715234.1219076391709 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline 2008/8/17 Marian Fulton & Art Harding <fulton.harding@ns.sympatico.ca> > 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 > > > -- Randy _________________________________ RF Lauff Way in the boonies of Antigonish County, NS. ------=_Part_18683_10715234.1219076391709 Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline <br><br><div class="gmail_quote">2008/8/17 Marian Fulton & Art Harding <span dir="ltr"><fulton.harding@ns.sympatico.ca></span><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;"> My aunt and uncle who live just outside of Parrsboro, have had a patch of<br>Japanese Knotweed for at least 40 years; it has not expanded if anything the<br>patch has gotten smaller the last 10 years. I think other plants have<br> crowded it out.<br><br>On the other hand, someone purchased a house down the street from me a few<br>years ago and decided he wanted to get rid of a small patch in his back<br>yard. The more he tried the more the patch expanded. It was almost like<br> watching a cartoon. The faster he tried to dig it out and till it up the<br>more it grew. Trees have grown up between here and the patch so I am not<br>sure how that battle is going.<br><br>Marian Fulton<br>Hantsport<br> <div class="Ih2E3d"><br>-----Original Message-----<br>From: naturens-owner@chebucto.ns.ca [mailto:naturens-owner@chebucto.ns.ca]<br> On Behalf Of Margaret E.Millard<br>Sent: 17 August 2008 00:52<br>To: naturens@chebucto.ns.ca<br></div> <div class="Ih2E3d">Subject: Re: [NatureNS] a positive aside on Japanese Knotweed<br><br></div> <div> <div></div> <div class="Wj3C7c">well I can't get to mow it, it is growing up through a jumble of dumped<br>concrete. I mow where I can get to flat and stopped digging it as I realised<br><br>that was fruitless, but this spring I did try pouring acid I purchased from<br> a fish plant down into the stalks but it didn't bat an eye. It has travelled<br><br>across our yard and now is in the ditch across the road and I do worry about<br><br>that blocking up the culverts as we can get a lot of water coming through<br> there in a tropical storm. As I said birds love it.<br>Marg Millard, White Point, Queens<br>http://margmillard.ca<br><br><br></div></div></blockquote></div><br><br clear="all"> <br>-- <br>Randy<br>_________________________________<br>RF Lauff<br>Way in the boonies of<br>Antigonish County, NS.<br> ------=_Part_18683_10715234.1219076391709--
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