japanese knotweed

When should Japanese Knotweed be treated?

March 5, 2012

The ‘growing season’, for the UK that is roughly May to October.  The ‘best’ time for treatment depends upon which herbicide is used. Japanese Knotweed treatment should ideally be avoided during flowering ‘season’ (late summer) in order to protect bees and other pollinating insects from harm.  Apart from that, the sooner treatment is started the better for everyone. [...]

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Do Invasive Species Spread in Winter?

November 28, 2011

With the warm late summer and mild days at the start of autumn seeming more and more like a distant memory, humans and animals are not the only things hunkering down to sit out the short cold days of winter ahead.  The changing hues of the autumn leaves are the most obvious sign of this but [...]

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Why are invasive species like Japanese Knotweed and Hogweed a problem?

October 27, 2011

Basically they’re known as invasive species because they are invading!  After being introduced into this country from other ecosystems they have been spreading and outcompeting native plants ever since, devaluing and damaging property in the process.  That sounds like the plot of a sinister sci-fi film, a horticultural horror story, they’re just plants, how bad [...]

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What is Land Remediation Tax Relief?

May 6, 2011

Finally a follow on from my post on landfill tax, a popular blog according to the stats. As a reward for remediating contaminted land HMRC offer 150% tax relief on qualifying expenditure.  If  you’ve aquired the land in a contaminated state, or for example, japanese knotweed is fly tipped on your premises, then you may well qualify [...]

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