I don't use any pesticides in my garden, as I am really opposed to them, but Hogweed is very toxic and needs to be got rid of. If glyphosate is the answer then that is what it has to be. Sorry.
Common Hogweed is very different from Giant Hogweed. Some people are susceptble to rashes from its sap, but as children we picked armfuls of Common Hogweed for our pet rabbits and goats ... bare armed and legged at that ... and never came to any harm. In fact, it's an edible plant often gathered and eaten by knowledgeable foragers.
I don't use any pesticides in my garden, as I am really opposed to them, but Hogweed is very toxic and needs to be got rid of. If glyphosate is the answer then that is what it has to be. Sorry.
Plants that people didn't want were removed before glyphosate was invented so it's never going to be the only answer. We are poisoning the world, (including ourselves) with all the chemicals we use. We need to open our minds and turn off the panic that Hogweed (not even Giant Hogweed here) causes.
@Nutcutlet the name is confusing people so much that at this rate Common Hogweed will become a rare plant and we'll no longer see its beautiful flowers and seedheads on our hedgebanks and verges
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
are you on about native hogweed or invasive giant hogweed? as native hogweed is pretty harmless, in fact its edible when young, whereas giant hogweed is a major problem!
I think it is the invasive Giant Hogweed. I will take a photo later on today, it is smallish at the moment, but it has come up in the same place where I dug it out 2 years ago.
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Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
In the sticks near Peterborough
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
In the sticks near Peterborough
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.