Himalayan Balsam
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UnframedDave
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A neighbour of mine planted one in his garden a few years ago. It's all over my paddock now.
He thinks it's pretty.
He thinks it's pretty.
Keep going, pulling it up when in flower really is the best method of eradication. I am fighting a constant battle, I suspect tractors and forestry vehicles move the seed around. I have had areas of success where the plant once was prolific but has now ceased to exist.
Thanks mate
Yes some areas i have just about sorted it - but then a flare up of germination occurs and its hard on the soul !
We have done lots of coppicing this year and some of those areas have had germination successes
I really am going to try and sort it this year - i am now on the fourth wave of going over my areas
It is illegal to do that
My dad and I used to hack down as much of it as we could when we fished the Lunan Water.
This going back about 50 years.
Eat it all mate
Oddly enough, the JKW and bamboo have made a valiant effort to come back this year at mine, I've had a steady reduction every year with various methods of removal, this year saw the bamboo come back early, and the JKW came in a little later so was harder to spot with other plants growing over it
timbrayford
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I didn't know that it was edible, does it taste good?
Pretty much all parts of the plant can be eaten, but in this instance it was just the flowers used as an edible garnish.
Very tasty!
shbangsteve
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weed wiper with Glyphosate. Kills the roots as well.
timbrayford
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Smallholder
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I thought many regard it as a useful source of food for all sorts of bees, the bumbles certainly like it round here.
I do pull it up from our stream banks but it seems pointless because so much seed comes down from upstream and masses.of it grows in the council roadside ditches that pollute the steam. Until something is done about that I can't.see much point in controlling it downstream.
I'm also not sure about how destructive it is around here as it grows alongside nettles and hemlock water dropwort.
Its worse than its reputation - when it dies off - nothing - banks / woods erode
Very very hard to strim in many areas its in though
Same story though - why control deer - crows - foxes when next door doesnt ?
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