In Mexican Bamboo, I wrote about my preparations for eliminating the swale of Japanese knotweed in our front yard. Now that it’s early June, it’s had 3-4 weeks to grow. Left alone, most of what is currently there would not grow much more. For the rest of the growing season, it would invest its growing …
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Cleaning up from Arthur
Tropical storm Arthur came through New Brunswick and downed so many trees that we were 8 days without power. The longest power outage I had experienced prior to that was under 36 hours. Our new property had 10 trees blown over. I expect that all of them were taken down by Arthur. While the trees …
Mexican Bamboo
Both the property in Miramichi and the one in Lakeville had a colony of Mexican Bamboo (or Japanese Knotweed). It’s a fast growing invasive species that is capable of killing off most vegetation that does not grow taller than it does. I succeeded in killing it off on both properties. In both cases, it took …