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Hogweed

Spadger1Spadger1 Posts: 11
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Hello, Can someone advise me the best way to get rid of Hogweed?
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  • LynLyn Posts: 23,190
    Spray the leaves with glyphosate.
    i don’t like using poisons, but if it out of hand for you, it’s probably the only way.
    wear protective clothing if you handle it, I came out in sore itchy water blisters once when I didn’t know any different. 
    Mind you, I was strimming in shorts😱
    Gardening on the wild, windy west side of Dartmoor. 

  • Spadger1Spadger1 Posts: 11
    Thanks Lynn.  I was wondering about Glyphosate, is there nothing else I could use?
  • LynLyn Posts: 23,190
    Long garden fork, but the roots are deep and no good if you break them. 
    Gardening on the wild, windy west side of Dartmoor. 

  • Spadger1Spadger1 Posts: 11
    O.k. Thank you. 😀
  • hogweedhogweed Posts: 4,053
    What have I done????💔
    'Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement' - Helen Keller
  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    An electrified stock fence and a herd of pigs will deal with it ... there's a reason it's called hogweed ... otherwise if there's more than a couple of roots, or if you're not up to diggng it out, glyphosate is the answer. 

    You don't have to spray it around indiscriminately ... just a targeted squirt on the growing point of each plant will do the trick, then wait until the whole plant has turned brown before cutting it down ... that means the roots are dead too. 

    Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.





  • raisingirlraisingirl Posts: 7,093
    hogweed said:
    What have I done????💔
    No idea but be very careful about what you eat should you ever be in Kent
    Gardening on the edge of Exmoor, in Devon

    “It's still magic even if you know how it's done.” 
  • hogweedhogweed Posts: 4,053
    :D
    'Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement' - Helen Keller
  • hogweedhogweed Posts: 4,053
    :D
    'Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement' - Helen Keller
  • Spadger1Spadger1 Posts: 11
    Thank you Dovefromabove.  Will get some Glyphosate then, that seems to be the answer. :)
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