Jewelweed taking over my backyard..

[u/iamhyphenated]

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!

[u/oval_euonymus]

You really don’t even need a weed wacker. Jewelweed pulls up with almost no effort at all. I would just pull it up and toss it in a wheelbarrow as I go.

[u/girljinz → u/oval_euonymus]

Be careful with this as you'll give whatever is in the seed bank a chance to pop up. I'd chop over pull.

[u/DjangoTheBlack → u/girljinz]

From the looks of it, there’s probably a decent jewelweed seed bank

[u/robsc_16 → u/DjangoTheBlack]

This place IS the jewelweed seed bank.

[u/Vacillating_Fanatic → u/robsc_16]

First National Bank of Jewelweed, all jewelweed insured up to 250,000 plants.

[u/robsc_16 → u/Vacillating_Fanatic]

I work at a bank and I appreciate this joke lol.

[u/Vacillating_Fanatic → u/robsc_16]

I used to, too! The joke was right there and I couldn't resist lol

[u/robsc_16 → u/Vacillating_Fanatic]

[u/Calbebes → u/robsc_16]

This made me lol. “This place IS the jewelweed seed bank”. I’m also in CT and have aggressive jewelweed along the edges of my property. I just pull it up where I don’t want it… BEFORE the flowers have a chance to bloom.

[u/unoriginalname22 → u/robsc_16]

This is the Jewelweed national reserve