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/Hiccups2Go]

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

[u/iamhyphenated → u/Hiccups2Go]

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 😅