Ai…what? I live in Portugal
Ailanthus
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Submitted 10 months ago by fossilesque@mander.xyz to science_memes@mander.xyz
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Tar_alcaran@sh.itjust.works 10 months ago
At least that’s a tree. Cutting down a tree is pretty doable, not like Japanese Knotweed, which is fucking unkillable
Hawk@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 months 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.
chonglibloodsport@lemmy.world 10 months ago
What do you do with noxious weeds like giant hogweed (Heracleum mantegazzianum)?
just_ducky_in_NH@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Or bittersweet.
Classy@sh.itjust.works 10 months ago
Honeysuckle is the worst
shiftymccool@programming.dev 10 months ago
Or garlic mustard
MintyAnt@lemmy.world 10 months 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.