Bush growing inside of a wall

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mux said:
Even the knotweed wouldn't choose to live on the Southside.
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Shh, don't let the knotweed know where it is. We don't want it upping roots and heading for the luxury of the southside. Sneaky feckers those knotweed.
 
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Dave Herbal said:
The dividing wall in my back yard has a bush growing inside it. It sprouts gleefully out the top, and keeps pushing lumps of render out of the side with its roots and branches. Now there are bricks being dislodged from the top.
Is there any way to kill such a thing? I’ve tried setting it on fire but it just grew back.!
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Dave Herbal said:
The dividing wall in my back yard has a bush growing inside it. It sprouts gleefully out the top, and keeps pushing lumps of render out of the side with its roots and branches. Now there are bricks being dislodged from the top.
Is there any way to kill such a thing? I’ve tried setting it on fire but it just grew back.!
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Bleach
 
peil said:
nah, it's a weedkiller, but it tends to linger in soil for ages

You're thinking of ammonium nitrate, lots of lovely nitrogen to expand. Same stuff the paddies mixed with fuel oil and levelled Canary Wharf. That's a fertiliser
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Oh and Beirut last year of course, slipped my mind that. Warehouse full of ammonium nitrate left lying for 10 years or so
 
Weed killer, carbon and sugar.
Dislodge a brick near the base of the trunk and roots.
Mix the above ingredients up equal measures and place in a copper pipe.
Make a home made fuse string soaked in petrol and run fuse through pipe.

Light and run for cover.
Sorted.
Should have enough stone to build a nice dry stone wall.

Any complaints about the loud bang just say it was the local gas works.
1more said:
Bleach
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It’s a tree not a toilet;)
 
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Swindon On Tour said:
Weed killer, carbon and sugar.
Dislodge a brick near the base of the trunk and roots.
Mix the above ingredients up equal measures and place in a copper pipe.
Make a home made fuse string soaked in petrol and run fuse through pipe.

Light and run for cover.
Sorted.
Should have enough stone to build a nice dry stone wall.

Any complaints about the loud bang just say it was the local gas works.


It’s a tree not a toilet;)
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I bet it does the trick though. Kills everything
 
1more said:
I bet it does the trick though. Kills everything
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One of the most stupid things we did when younger and we did a few.
Luckily we buried it in the ground :)
becs said:
Buy some of this:


Drill holes in the accessible branches and roots and use the included pipette to inject the bush. It will die.
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Sensible answer, sensible lass demonstrating that not all Townie’s are daft :rolleyes::lol:
 
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