On 4/5/08 16:43, in article ,
"Stuart Noble" wrote:

Sacha wrote:
On 4/5/08 13:55, in article ,
"Stuart Noble" wrote:

Sacha wrote:
On 4/5/08 13:14, in article ,
"Stuart Noble" wrote:

Sacha wrote:
On 3/5/08 22:54, in article ,
"Baal"
wrote:

TY Judith
It does work. It's not pretty but keep your nerve! Trying to dig it out
is
a disaster, frankly because every broken off bit of root gives rise to a
new
plant.

I wonder if it works with the dreaded Japanese Knotweed. I know someone
who's just moved into a house and seeing that emerging from the crazy
paving wasn't the best house warming present!
Perhaps you could give her a house warming present of a new paintbrush!
No, sorry, you've lost me there.

To paint on the weedkiller.


Ah, thanks. I've only ever used a spray for nuisance weeds. This
knotweed sounds like a pretty serious business.

It's a pest and a pain. I mention the paintbrush because of the weeding I
did today on the drive. Most parts of the garden were almost windless but
this had a steady breeze and any spray would have drifted onto things we
don't want ruined! For a variety of reasons, this year has been very busy
and spare hands in short supply, so soil we dug over last year has been
pounced upon by tiresome but easily uprooted weeds like Shepherd's purse and
goose grass. Unfortunately, it's a fairly broad and long area and I would
have loved to have been able to spray it!
--
Sacha
http://www.hillhousenursery.co.uk
South Devon
'We do not inherit the earth from our ancestors, we borrow it from our
children.'