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… Continue reading Knotweed round one
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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… Continue reading Mexican Bamboo