What is Knotweed?

Knotweed is a plant from many parts of Asia. The Japanese and giant knots are used as components in nutraceutic, resveratrol, which is assumed to have antioxidant and aging.

This plant has a look similar to bamboo, which can explain why it is sometimes called Japanese or Mexican bamboo. However, this is not related to a bamboo plant. Sometimes it is also called donkey rhubarb and some people eat the stems of young plants that are somewhat similar to taste as rhubarb or asparagus.

Europeans and Americans introduced two Knotweed plants to their countries with poor results. Although the purpose of the introduction of the plant was largely ornamental, it soon became known as tough and aggressive plant species that could easily attack small cracks on the sidewalk or choke with more favorable plants. In fact, in the northeast US, beekeepers grow it because flowers take place longer than most other plants, so the bees keep the bees in busy production.Honey made of this plant was compared with buckwheat honey in taste and appearance.

Despite its potential usefulness as a healing product and its indisputable ability to strengthen honey production, gardeners generally despise it because it is extremely tough. In some areas it was responsible for the death of the original plants, because in the spring it tends to provide so much shadow that some plants cannot be the necessary sunlight. Also, the vegetation of Knotweed is so dense that other plants cannot grow.

Some Knotweed killing strategies include a decrease in the plant and then completely cover with a flat with plume sails. This can effectively suffocate how it begins to grow aggressively. Alternately with glyphosate found in the product technician as Roundup® can kill Knotweed, but can also kill other flowers and plants that are desirable. Some only keep weeds cropped back to growLina prevented the growth and disruption of the allocation of the Sun of other plants.