£2,500 Fine for growing Japanese Knotweed

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/gr...ion-under-new-anti-social-behaviour-laws.html

Have you got any in your garden?

 

well I know off 3 people in work all who back on to a railway line and and all have it invading from the embankment into the gardens , and have moaned and groaned and nothing has been done

Spruce

 

At first reading it doesn't appear to cover the likes of Railtrack, only ordinary householders.

 

Or the farmer in the field behind me? Girt Clump of it there

 

he needs some sheep zigs they love to eat it

 

It's full of sheep, they've eaten all the grass, brambles and nettles, yet they won't touch it

They just keep coming up to me and asking for Cardoon leaves

 

Non native foreign invaders, I think we are on dodgy ground here

 

My favorite description is of Pineapple weed.

 

they will when hungry enough

 

Japanese Knotweed is a real menace. If you don't believe me, watch this video:

 

Cry havoc and let slip the dogs of war

http://money.aol.co.uk/2014/10/21/could-a-tiny-mite-mark-the-end-for-japanese-knotweed/

 

No, someone reported on here that they'd seen it off with saturating with Roundup, and then pouring what was left down the hollow stems.