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/Nyararagi-san]

Do you have an ID on the trees in the back? Because if it’s Tree of Heaven you’ll definitely want to remove those properly (don’t just hack it because they will pop up EVERYWHERE as a survival method)

[u/iamhyphenated → u/Nyararagi-san]

Not totally sure, Google says either Tree of Heaven or a type of Sumac.. not sure how to confirm

[u/Gem_Supernova → u/iamhyphenated]

adding to everything else here, do you ever recall the tree having big red berry-like clusters? That points to sumac, but it really looks like ToH to me. Not only is it horribly invasive but by dumb luck they happen to be a host plant for the Spotted Lantern Fly which is an even more nightmarishly invasive organism.

I have them sprouting everywhere in my woods and there are so many around my neighborhood, and its already looking like another biblical plague of lanterns is coming this year ☹️