As well as damaging brickwork to causing arguments with the neighbour, Japanese knotweed can have lots of detrimental impacts on your property. Left untreated it can make your home difficult to sell and can cause lasting damage. You might be wondering whether or not Japanese knotweed will affect your home insurance, which is a sensible question if you're a concerned homeowner. In this blog, we'll explain exactly how Japanese knotweed can affect your home insurance.

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Gardeners up and down the country spend hours and hours tackling weeds in their gardens. Sadly, weeds have a way of coming back year after year and disrupting the lawn and surrounding plants. Here at Total Weed Control, we offer a weed control service that tackles all kinds of different weeds using professional herbicides. One of the questions we often get asked is - "do you have to pull up dead weeds after spraying them?"

The short answer is yes, but it's important that you pull the dead weeds up in a very specific way to ensure that they don't come back to haunt you the following year...

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Researchers at Leiden University’s Biology Institute have discovered that Japanese leaf fleas can be used to tackle Japanese knotweed. The breakthrough research took place on a cycle path in Amsterdam Zuid and demonstrated how a natural predator of Japanese knotweed could be an effective way to control the growth of the weed.

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UK news outlets publish a lot of stories about Japanese knotweed and the devastating impact it can have on house prices. If you're a homeowner, these articles may well cause you to worry - is it possible that Japanese knotweed could be growing near your property?

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Japanese knotweed is an invasive plant that has caused a lot of trouble in the UK. Live cases have risen by almost 28% in the past five years, and it's been estimated that Japanese knotweed robs the British economy of £41 million each year.

If you find Japanese knotweed growing on your property, it's important to get it under control ASAP - leaving it to grow unchecked can reduce the value of your home, and you may even find yourself on the wrong side of the law if you permit the plant to spread into the wild.

So when it comes to dealing with Fallopia japonica, time is of the essence. That being said, you shouldn't try to tackle this plant yourself unless you know exactly what you're doing; Japanese knotweed is a tricky customer, and most amateur attempts to eradicate the plant just end up spreading it further.

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