Comment on Ailanthus

Tar_alcaran@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

• Hawk@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  We have a saying here that applies to Japanese Knotweed: if you can’t beat it, eat it.

  The young plants have a rhubarb like taste, we made cake with it once.

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  • chonglibloodsport@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    What do you do with noxious weeds like giant hogweed (Heracleum mantegazzianum)?

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    • Hawk@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Stay the fuck away from those. Phototoxic weeds are no joke.

      In all seriousness, there’s a list of plants EU nations are supposed to weed. I think they do as much as they can for plants like Giant Hogweed (mostly because they tend to hurt children and people who don’t know about their properties)

      In the case of Japanese Knotweed, they have basically given up, so it just flourishes everywhere.

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      • chonglibloodsport@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        Where I live (Ontario Canada) we are overwhelmed with invasive Phragmites. Although they’re edible and can be used as livestock fodder they still dominate our waterways. We don’t really have any farmers raising water buffalo which would be an ideal herd for grazing them down.

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• just_ducky_in_NH@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Or bittersweet.

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  • Classy@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Honeysuckle is the worst

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    • lolrightythen@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      All of these make my knees hurt from remembering my years in americorps

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  • shiftymccool@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Or garlic mustard

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• MintyAnt@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  There’s a smother option but it takes 5ish years of leaving smothered.

  There’s the roundup spray option, which is probably the most effective currently? It’s critical you spray at the right time (after it flowers)

  I saw one option of repeatedly cutting it to eventually starve the plant of energy. I suspect there’s some specifics there about when it’s ok to cut though.

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