{"id":21933,"date":"2022-08-17T04:39:55","date_gmt":"2022-08-17T08:39:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alanskeoch.ca\/?p=21933"},"modified":"2022-08-30T18:51:10","modified_gmt":"2022-08-30T22:51:10","slug":"episode-626-when-giant-hogweed-goes-to-seed-big-trouble-beckons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alanskeoch.ca\/?p=21933","title":{"rendered":"EPISODE 626 WHEN GIANT HOGWEED GOES TO SEED….BIG TROUBLE BECKONS"},"content":{"rendered":"
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NOTE: STORY INCOMPLETE as family arriving from England.  Your job? Check to see if there<\/div>\n
is a fine if you let Giant Hogweed grow on your land?  The plant is the very devil.  Caught us<\/div>\n
unaware\u2026.again.  Must go to bed and send story as it is \u2026.alan<\/div>\n

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EPISODE 626    WHEN GIANT HOGWEED GOES TO SEED\u2026BIG TROUBLE BECKONS<\/p>\n


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John Windham wrote Day of the Triffids long ago wen I taught English at Parkdale C. I.  A movie was made as well<\/div>\n
I  Wonder if he really knew about the<\/div>\n
giant Hogweed?  This invasive plant is hard to get rid of because once it goes to see those<\/div>\n
seeds can wait in the ground for 15 years to germinate.<\/div>\n

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My son\u2019s Giant Hogweed persists even though he tried to remove it clothed head<\/div>\n
to foot in protective gear\u2026cut the plants to the roots, poured poison down<\/div>\n
the throats of the roots and then wrapped the plants in garbage bags for proper disposal.<\/div>\n
I am not sure what he meant by proper disposal.<\/div>\n

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Lo and behold\u2026.the Giant Hogweed came up again this year after a few yeas hiatus.<\/div>\n
And this year it was not detected until the flowers became seeds.  Trouble\u2026Trouble\u2026Trouble.<\/div>\n
What can be done?<\/div>\n

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NOTE: STORY INCOMPLETE as family arriving from England.  Your job? Check to see if there is a fine if you let Giant Hogweed grow on your land?  The plant is the very devil.  Caught us unaware\u2026.again.  Must go to bed and send story as it is \u2026.alan EPISODE 626    WHEN GIANT HOGWEED GOES TO […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21933","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alanskeoch.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21933","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alanskeoch.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alanskeoch.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alanskeoch.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alanskeoch.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=21933"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alanskeoch.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21933\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alanskeoch.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21933"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alanskeoch.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21933"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alanskeoch.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21933"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}