Japanese Knotweed control and eradication

Japanese Knotweed is everywhere!

Japanese Knotweed isn’t just affecting our own day-to-day lives; it is infesting everything which includes our world wide and national transport as well. The problems it creates are numerous and it may be really dangerous for our rail companies since it could break spart stone below the rail track, walls and bridges as well as various other things. As well as messing around our rail services and their environments additionally it may obstruct typical day by day living for people, with damage to architectural structures, archaeological sites, canals and even our pavement!

The problem is so rife that in 2003 the UK government put 1.5 billion pounds in to help out with Japanese knotweed control. Not only are our artificial habitats affected but so are our natural habitats. Our native biodiversity is being affected by knotweeds exclusion of and dominance over our native British plants, through its intensive growing speed. Japanese Knotweed is a plant native to eastern Asia in places like Japan, China and Korea, but it is extremely versatile and will flourish well in an incredibly diverse set of conditions.

As well as the nationwide takeover it’s beginning to dominate our back gardens too! We would all love that optimal garden, with the perfect lawn and swing set, where we can invite friends and family round in the summer for a nice barbeque and a glass of wine or a play in the snow during winter; but there’s one thing that can hold us back from all of that and that’s an infestation of Japanese Knotweed.
Japanese Knotweed eradication techniques.

There is a 24-48 month project in which professional trained sprayers are sent in to spray the plant with a specialized herbicide. The procedure is completed over a time period of two to four growing seasons and it is the most economically sound.
If you’re looking to build up a plot of land for development then there is an alternative. The treatment which will still take approximately 24-48 months but is far more labour intensive. The technique focuses on the removal of knotweed to a specific treatment area or stockpile, clearing the area and allowing the new development to go ahead. The removed knotweed which has been placed in a stockpile is then sprayed with the herbicide as used in any of the other smaller projects.
A shorter alternative for Japanese knotweed eradication is a 12-24 month project where the most vigorous part of the plant is removed and disposed of. The remaining parts of the plants are once again treated with the specially designed herbicide. Of course not all eradications will take between 24-48 months and it is all dependent on the scale of infestation, but without consistent treatment, knotweed will find a way to spread throughout the site again.
You control the Japanese Knotweed don’t let it control you.

The perfect backyard garden, development site, home, paving, railway and English environment may easily wind up being wrecked by knotweed infestation, and it should certainly be best practice to be vigilant for evidence of knotweed in every existing or prospective buy on a site or home. Knotweed removal is a worthwhile, yet pricey and time intensive, solution which will surely reduce and in most cases entirely remove a developing worry to our environment and with the help of a growing number of specially trained teams and organizations all over the British Isles, it couldn't be easier.

The author of this article works for a company that specialises in Japanese Knotweed Control .