If you’re a homeowner you may have heard about Japanese Knotweed in Worcestershire and surrounding areas. You may have heard about Japanese Knotweed and the effects it can have on your property. Perhaps you are aware about the fine or ASBO you could incur if you allow it to spread from your property to another. But did you know how fast growing Japanese Knotweed is? Or the fact that it can spread with ease on the bottom of your shoe?

Japanese Knotweed has an extraordinary ability to spread. Even tiny amounts of cut rhizome are capable of producing a new plant. If the soil, contaminated with the rhizome is moved to another part of the site, or moved to another site completely, it will re-grow and cause further spreading. Controlling the spread of Japanese Knotweed is therefore dependent on preventing the spread of the rhizome.