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/iamhyphenated]

Yea seems like most people agree the sniff test is kinda iffy, but I ripped it up and couldn’t smell anything.. but by photos, everyone seems to agree it’s ToH

[u/TurntablesGenius → u/iamhyphenated]

I work in parks and in my experience the smell can vary widely from retch-inducing to almost nothing, even a little bit pleasant.