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3rd November 15, 09:35 AM
#11
 Originally Posted by Kamilavalamp
Try Napalm, If you scorch the earth nothing will grow in that spot for years. I had to "spot scotch" a 6 foot by 2 foot area to kill some bamboo that my neighbor planted and then spread over to my land. I think he wanted to use the bamboo to poach my property little by little. After it overtook the first foot of my land he tried to have the fence moved over past it. I had to run off his workers and then get a land essayer to mark the property line. After that I started scorching the land to keep the bamboo at bay.
Japanese knotweed (fallopia Japonica) will grow on scorched earth, we've got it here and its a nightmare to kill, some idiot decided to bring it here because it looked nice, its been known to destroy house foundations and roads!!!! Kit
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3rd November 15, 09:52 AM
#12
Originally Posted by Finistere
Japanese knotweed (fallopia Japonica) will grow on scorched earth, we've got it here and its a nightmare to kill, some idiot decided to bring it here because it looked nice, its been known to destroy house foundations and roads!!!! Kit
He thought it looked nice too. I tried crushing the stuff, I've tried pulling it up, You can't pull it up!!! It's like a upside down tree!!! It's Roots are like tree tops!!! It's Bigger Underneath than above!!! The scorching doesn't stop it from coming back up, but it does make it take longer to come back than any other method I've tried. It's got no predators here so it just spreads and spreads. I don't even want to think about what it's doing underground.
Last edited by Kamilavalamp; 3rd November 15 at 09:54 AM.
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3rd November 15, 10:12 AM
#13
Originally Posted by Kamilavalamp
He thought it looked nice too. I tried crushing the stuff, I've tried pulling it up, You can't pull it up!!! It's like a upside down tree!!! It's Roots are like tree tops!!! It's Bigger Underneath than above!!! The scorching doesn't stop it from coming back up, but it does make it take longer to come back than any other method I've tried. It's got no predators here so it just spreads and spreads. I don't even want to think about what it's doing underground.
The only success I've had in killing it, is to tip some tree root killer into the hollow stem, it doesn't like that!!!!! Kit
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