MegaSack DRAW - This year's winner is user - rgwb
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This is in the communal ground next to our house.
Is it Giant Hogweed?
If not, what?
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Cheers! :-/
Looks like it
Napalm required
Don't touch it with bare skin.
Don't touch it with bare skin.
Very true.
Also, from past experience, if you try to dig it out, you will find that the root system appears to extend all the way down to Australia.
Heracleum mantegazzianum
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I know a song about that!
Oh, and getting rid? Dust off and nuke from space, it's the only answer.
Nasty stuff and a pain to get shot of. A job for the council if a risk to kids etc.
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