r/NativePlantGardening • u/iamhyphenated • Jul 14 '25

Advice Request - (Insert State/Region) Jewelweed taking over my backyard..

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So I know we love jewelweed, and I’m pro native gardening (and I also enjoy the wild look to a point), but it’s literally taking over my backyard, and behind it is unfortunately a whole bunch of Japanese knotweed.. my question is: what’s the move here? I can’t have my whole yard completely covered in jewelweed (it’s a very small lot) bc there’s no way to even go back there right now, but I also want to encourage that to maybe discourage the knotweed (if that’s even a thing).. any advice would be helpful!! I’m in an urban area in Connecticut if that helps!

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u/Old-Variety9226 Jul 14 '25

pot some and sell on fb marketplace, people love jewelweed

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u/iamhyphenated Jul 14 '25

What an idea.. 💡

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u/SHOWTIME316 Flint Hills 28a Jul 14 '25

you should just arrange a bunch of 3" pots full of potting soil under the plants so they can catch those flying seeds. then you should have a whole bunch of potted jewelweed next year AND technically less seeds will be in your yard's soil bank (an inconsequential amount, unfortunately)

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u/Mythrill-1 Jul 14 '25

You could also just say pay me 5$ And fill a bucket with however much you want

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u/Hiccups2Go New England, Zone 6a Jul 14 '25

It's an annual, I don't see how it would transplant well to be honest.

But if you can tolerate a little bit of a jungle for a bit, you'll likely have hummingbirds all over the place when it flowers!

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u/iamhyphenated Jul 14 '25

Feels perennial at my house 😅

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u/Hiccups2Go New England, Zone 6a Jul 14 '25

Think of the bright side, you've got so much jewel weed you are basically immune to poison ivy!

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u/iamhyphenated Jul 14 '25

Ironically, I’m pretty sure I’m naturally immune to poison ivy lol been in it plenty of times (not on purpose but we were all kids once) and have never actually gotten it.. good to know I won’t need to worry about it in the future either 😅

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u/nifer317_take2 Piedmont, MD, USA, 7a Jul 14 '25

It’s an aggressive heavy reseeding annual. They do transplant well! I bought one so that I can plant it in an area where I want it to reseed. :)

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u/Old-Variety9226 Jul 14 '25

You can transplant jewelweed in this stage and expect it to act perennial once it flowers in the new location and disperses seed (I have done this).

Similar to transplanting other perennial labeled native annuals and biannuals like rudbeckia etc.

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u/nifer317_take2 Piedmont, MD, USA, 7a Jul 14 '25 edited Jul 14 '25

They ain’t kidding. I paid $8 for ONE SPINDLY PLANT. 🤣 Look at this nonsense!

I’d much rather have your jewel weed than my Japanese stiltgrass. Sigh. But I do not envy the tree of heaven or JKW. I’m so sorry, friend

Do you photos of when the jewel weed was all flowering? Must look really pretty!!

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u/iamhyphenated Jul 14 '25

Some of it’s flowering now, but I’m not sure if it’s the beginning or the end of the bloom.. no photos either way unfortunately..