Quite often we find that animals such as foxes and badgers will bring some of the rhizome (root) into a garden. Then as they scratch around in the flowerbeds the small piece of the rhizome is deposited into the bed where it soon establishes and grows into a plant.

In this small town of Heanor, the client was well aware of badgers that regularly passed through his garden. We were sure that they had brought the Japanese knotweed in on their claws. The plant itself was quite small only being about 0.6m tall and the client was positive it had not been there last year.

After careful examination, we decided that getting rid of the Japanese knotweed in Heanor, was required by digging it out. We were able to dig out the Japanese knotweed by carefully tracing the roots back. In this case, they were very shallow only being 0.5 metres deep. We then disposed of the Japanese knotweed in a legally compliant manner.

We had to monitor the garden in Heanor for a further two years to ensure no more Japanese knotweed grew back. We also recommended the client reinforce his fencing so no further infestations could be brought in by the uninvited guests.