Himalayan Balsam Solution

[Lancstree]

Found out today from a countryside ranger that you can eat the seeds of himalayan balsam. If everyone eats them they cannot reproduce.

[mikecotterill]

[/indent] If everyone eats them they cannot reproduce.

sounds an extreme way of population control

[mikecotterill]

In fact maybe it'd be an idea to mush it up and put it in the milk of certain parts of Salford!!!

[Lancstree]

haha. I've a habit of writing ambiguous sentences

[Lancstree]

Apparently its been used as a food source by Indians for centuries

[treequip]

In fact maybe it'd be an idea to mush it up and put it in the milk of certain parts of Salford!!!

 

Better targeted if you put it in Stella or Tenants Super:sneaky2:

[Tony Croft aka hamadryad]

This weed is running through my favourite site, i havent figured a way of dealing with it i can live with yet, but introducing some bore might help!

[Dean O]

Hama - the most efficient way to deal with it - especially near water courses is just to pull it from the ground and leave it in heaps before it seeds - very shallow roots makes this dead easy.

Have a balsam pulling party.

needs doing year on year because all of the dormant seeds that wll be present. but will slowly make a dent.

[Tony Croft aka hamadryad]

Hama - the most efficient way to deal with it - especially near water courses is just to pull it from the ground and leave it in heaps before it seeds - very shallow roots makes this dead easy.

Have a balsam pulling party.

needs doing year on year because all of the dormant seeds that wll be present. but will slowly make a dent.

 

Thanks for that, shall now pull it up as i go!

[Gnarlyoak]

Make sure when you pull them, the roots are left high and dry cos if there still paddling in the water they will keep growing. This year is likely to be even worse for balsalm because of the very cold winter. The seeds like a hard cold period (like they have in Himalaya's) so far more than usual are likely to germinate this year.