I've been working on ridding a patch (well established) for about 5 years now (maybe 6 lol). I have dug out where there were large chunks of roots, burned new shoots with a propane torch and sprayed herbicide on them. I have finally gotten it down to only a shoot or two a year and those are treated promptly. I didn't know what they were, made a good privacy screen and they really didn't spread much, but once I discovered what they were, I've been killing them and replacing them with lilacs
Disregarding the legality of accidentally or purposefully propagating it, is it safe to consume? If it is edible, it could easily become a cheap supplement for cattle or horses, or simply enter into the market as an novel food item to be used as relish or in salads. It reminds of Kudzu for the southern U.S.
Yes it's potentially consumable and is used as a type of mountain vegetable (Sansai) in Japanese cooking. A member of the same family as rhubarb (Polygonaceae) and like rhubarb, it contains oxalic acid, which can aggravate conditions like gout and rheumatism. We didn't mention this idea and don't want to promote eating wild plants, as there's a potential of misidentifying a species and eating something poisonous.
This is true, I didn't consider the implications of promoting eating wild plants, and the fact that it's a oxalic acid plant kind of makes it undesirable too.
The young shoots are edible, and the plant is the most concentrated source of resveratol we've ever found. People even make tinctures of the roots which have the most resveratol. Enjoy your mixed drink, in moderation. Cheers. Don't waste it on animals.
This is what I found out about oxalic acid on the internet. Because oxalates are water soluble, they can be reduced by blanching, boiling, or steaming with the liquid discarded. Fermentation reduces oxalates. Cooking in milk or macerating in whey can also mitigate oxalate exposure. Sprouting can help too.
@@Zootycoonman223 lots of foods have oxalic acid, like rhubarb and spinach. You're a human being and it's not too hard to learn to identify a plant, especially one that is in the UK as a clone only.
Did you know in the USA where my Herbalist friend lives, her Council just mow the knotweed down. No pesticides used at all. And they use Knotweed to hold banks together, stopping them from collapsing. Why is it so difficult in the UK to get a debate going with people who call themselves ACADEMICS?
Probably the same academics that said fit young healthy people needed to take covid injections whilst they took backhanders from the pharma industry. FFS!
I've been working on ridding a patch (well established) for about 5 years now (maybe 6 lol). I have dug out where there were large chunks of roots, burned new shoots with a propane torch and sprayed herbicide on them. I have finally gotten it down to only a shoot or two a year and those are treated promptly. I didn't know what they were, made a good privacy screen and they really didn't spread much, but once I discovered what they were, I've been killing them and replacing them with lilacs
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Disregarding the legality of accidentally or purposefully propagating it, is it safe to consume? If it is edible, it could easily become a cheap supplement for cattle or horses, or simply enter into the market as an novel food item to be used as relish or in salads. It reminds of Kudzu for the southern U.S.
Yes it's potentially consumable and is used as a type of mountain vegetable (Sansai) in Japanese cooking. A member of the same family as rhubarb (Polygonaceae) and like rhubarb, it contains oxalic acid, which can aggravate conditions like gout and rheumatism. We didn't mention this idea and don't want to promote eating wild plants, as there's a potential of misidentifying a species and eating something poisonous.
This is true, I didn't consider the implications of promoting eating wild plants, and the fact that it's a oxalic acid plant kind of makes it undesirable too.
The young shoots are edible, and the plant is the most concentrated source of resveratol we've ever found. People even make tinctures of the roots which have the most resveratol. Enjoy your mixed drink, in moderation. Cheers.
Don't waste it on animals.
This is what I found out about oxalic acid on the internet.
Because oxalates are water soluble, they can be reduced by blanching, boiling, or steaming with the liquid discarded. Fermentation reduces oxalates. Cooking in milk or macerating in whey can also mitigate oxalate exposure. Sprouting can help too.
@@Zootycoonman223 lots of foods have oxalic acid, like rhubarb and spinach. You're a human being and it's not too hard to learn to identify a plant, especially one that is in the UK as a clone only.
Knotweed heals tick infestation.
Nope. Foliage monocultures don't, fire will though.
Did you know in the USA where my Herbalist friend lives, her Council just mow the knotweed down. No pesticides used at all.
And they use Knotweed to hold banks together, stopping them from collapsing. Why is it so difficult in the UK to get a debate going with people who call themselves ACADEMICS?
Probably the same academics that said fit young healthy people needed to take covid injections whilst they took backhanders from the pharma industry. FFS!
Yes
are they smokable?
You can eat their first buds
Ask ernst gotsch about its maintenance 👌
Huge assumption about structural damage. Where is the evidence? House of Commons science committee May 2019.
It literally pierces through concrete structures…
just google "knotweed destruction" ... it breaks through concrete and bricks ... grows through house foundations and up through floor boards
graze it, use it, celebrate it, a true gem of a plant
if anyone need some of this beautiful plant. I can mail this for free. It will be by AIR mail. 🤣
So how do we get rid....don’t touch it. Cool. Thanks.
Dig and herbicide.
Von Siebold was German, not Dutch
I think they confused him with Karl von Klauswitz (the Dutch equivalent to Santa Klaus)
Another rubbish product from Chy-Nah.