Spent an hour trying to find a proper weed killer online. No luck.
Nervous about using glyphosate or simply can't find it?
I ordered Round Up from Amazon about two months ago. Just do not breathe it.
I was looking for Roundup but couldn't find it. Will check Amazon but I suspect they won't deliver here.
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Might be right.
We have a very invasive species of Japanese knotweed here and nothing helps like Round Up. I really fucked up last year. They have an attractive character and later an interesting flower and I usually mow them down in early fall just as they bloom. Then as I replenish the soil around my desirables, I usually dig out several root systems and they go straight to the trash can or the burn pile.
Last year the heavy rains came at a bad time and I had not yet mowed. Some of them went to seed.
Not sure how far this set me back trying to get rid of it. Only a systemic will even hinder its growth.
Ooooh. Japanese knotweed. We have regulations regarding the control of that stuff in the UK. Lucky you don't live here. It's not illegal to grow knotweed on your land , but you could have faced big fines for sending the roots to the trash (which is all-too-likely to spread it) ,
and for the likely consequences of letting it go to seed. it's also worth noting that the rhizomes can survive burning , so the residue
still requires careful disposal .
I had to do research on knotweed control on accounrt of a nearby (i.e. it came withthin two yards of my back garden at the nearest point) infestation at my last address. I and a couple of other tenabts were struggling every which way to stop the stuff reaching our gardens; whilst a whole bunch of landlords ( seemed like every address had a different landlord) were variously attempting to sue each other or shrugging their shoulders. The local council just ducked out of the fray after consulting their maps and establishing that none of the affected land belonged to them , nay not even the connectng alleyway (They couldn't say who the alleyway belonged to, just that their map had it marked as "private property") . My nutcase of a landlady tried blaming those tenants who were trying to control the infestation. Sure enough, when i looked it up, she had the law on her side to some extent. That is, my next-door-neighbour who'd been going along the alleyway every year, heroically hacking down all the overhanging knotweed before it had a chance to go to seed should
not have been transporting the remains to the dump. (Actually, there appeared to be nothing he could legally do with it, given his limited means. ) I was on the right side of the knotweed law , as it turned out. I'd been repeatedly spraying that very close patch (and one or two other patches) with super-strength glyphosate solution and had actually managed to actually kill it , so it seemed (you have to wait about 5 years to be sure) by the time any of the landlords did anything constructive. Still my landlady grumbled that I should
not have let the dead stalks fall into the alleyway, and told me to throw them back into the garden they came from (a
very dodgy propostion, given that the landlord of that place was now credibly denying that he'd ever had any knotweed on his land. )
In the end, it was never
really resoved. Most of the affected properties were eventually treated by professionals in spacesuits, but the presumed epicentre (a garden that was wholly overataken by the stuff) wasn't treated at all, because the owner couldn't be traced. And now that both my next-door-neighbour and I have moved out, it will probably be spreading like wildfire again.
I tend to think of this kind of fiasco as yet another strong argument for bringing as much rented housing as possible back into public ownership.
