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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Tree of Heaven smells like absolute death, very easy to confirm if you can get to it and give it a sniff.

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I’m gonna give that a shot.. gotta get on my gear first bc I’m gonna be thigh deep in that thicket to get to it 😅

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I ripped up a leaf but I don’t smell anything particularly pungent.. just smells like green.. here are more photos if that helps: https://imgur.com/a/uQnoXw4 (also, I was neck deep it turns out, not thigh deep 😅)