Re: weeds :(
- Subject: Re: [sibrob] weeds :(
- From: e*@aol.com
- Date: Sun, 3 Jun 2001 13:26:59 EDT
In a message dated 6/3/01 9:34:00 AM Eastern Daylight Time,
ellengalla@yahoo.com writes:
<< Yes, Andrew spent a couple of hours with the AHS Encyclopedia of
Plants - we definitely have the "horror"...ours leapt across the
highway from our property to a riverbank. The highway crew mows
it down sporadically. Ours is the initial planting where it is
entrenched. >>
Ellen,
Ed who has done valiant battle with this plant says that you should give up
gardening in it's location for a year or two. Mow it down with the lawn mover
and bag up the trimmings. The spray with brush killer on the new growth.
Keep this routine for one season and see what happens in the next spring.
Ellen, there is no use in planting a wanted plant anywhere around knotweed.
The knotweed always wins.
We have been three years killing a "Texas Scarlet" Japanese Quince and this
year we seem to be winning. When we pulled out the original old shrub,
thousands of sprouts came up in the gardens and in the lawns. Older
gardeners passed around this stuff as money for good plants was never a
priority.
The knotweed is widely spread in this area and actually liked by city folk
where nothing else will grow.
Claire Peplowski
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