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A bowling club in Ayrshire fears the Japanese knuckle will wipe out its valuable £60,000 green.
The Tarbolton Bowling Club looks forward to toasting its anniversary as a club in 3 years.
But the members are afraid of the big factory that puts them on the brink of disaster.
Now they are worried about that pressing action, there will be no club – qualified as the center of the network – to celebrate.
The Quilleurs dug trenches and cut shoots in a desperate attempt to save their valuable green with frightened limbs that described the proliferation as a “jungle. “
The Japanese knotweed can grow up to 20 centimeters per day to reach its maximum height of 12 feet.
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The club’s secretary, Anne Reid, told Ayrshire Live: “It’s like a jungle here, everything is invaded.
“Everything sneaks in, it can pass the brick and it grows at a fast pace.
“It’s getting closer and closer to the green. If you go to the green, it’s over. I would want to be torn and revived again. “
“I would charge £60,000 to redo it. The network can’t make this happen, so it would be a disaster. The petanque club is in the center of the village. “
Killer grass spreads from vacant lots that have been set aside for new homes through Allanvale Land Developments.
Ayrshire Live told in 2015 how bowlers were already fighting the killer plant.
Reid recounted how, seven years later, they are still imploring developers to take on the green beast before it’s too late.
She claims that Allanvale Land Developments boss Jim Kirkwood, Troon’s manager for the Scottish Western League Premier Division, ignored CALLS from SOS.
However, Kirkwood denied being contacted and drew up plans to remove the weed.
He said: “I have won correspondence from the Tarbolton Bowling Club, but we would be very open to an assembly with them and the community.
“I will be happy to sit down with them and talk about our plans. We had the domain before the Knotweed there.
“We don’t know if anyone reported it on our site, possibly they would have had it on their own site and abandoned it on ours.
“Previously, there were no knuckles there and there was no evidence of that. “
Kirkwood, who has had previous relationships with Japanese knuckles for years in the structures industry, hopes to hire a specialist to perform the enormous task of preventing the uproar.
The procedure can take up to a year with a timeline.
“We will bring in a specialized contractor in the next six to eight weeks,” he continued.
“They have to wait until the end of the development season before doing the first spray. In the spring, they will come and cut it. Then they will spray it again at the end of the summer. “
“It’s a big task because you want to undo it safely and it can take up to a year. It’s not impossible, we’ve already been undone elsewhere. “
The Japanese knuckle was first brought to the UK in 1850 and is believed to have been naturalised in 1866.
But the plant temporarily faces a major challenge after leaving its herbarium environment in Asia, where 30 species of insects and six species of fungi feed on it.
The problem, however, is that those species exist in the UK, allowing the plant to thrive.
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