{"id":309,"date":"2014-04-06T12:37:05","date_gmt":"2014-04-06T12:37:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sustainablelife.spiderstudio.co.uk\/?p=309"},"modified":"2014-04-06T12:37:05","modified_gmt":"2014-04-06T12:37:05","slug":"japanese-knotweed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sustainablelifebirmingham.co.uk\/index.php\/freefood\/japanese-knotweed\/","title":{"rendered":"Japanese Knotweed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Japanese Knotweed is a pest species in the UK. It&#8217;s pretty prolific stuff and even the smallest scrap can spread and take over an area very quickly. Therefore, we stick to two points:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Eat the stuff &#8211; Anything to hinder it&#8217;s growth has to be a good thing.<\/li>\n<li>Always be extremely careful when approaching. Do not tread on it, dispose of all scraps completely. The slightest peel, fibre or speck an spread and it&#8217;s actually illegal to do so.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/sustainablelife.spiderstudio.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/10169424_10152318145841774_946621516_n.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-310\" alt=\"japanese knotweed\" src=\"http:\/\/sustainablelife.spiderstudio.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/10169424_10152318145841774_946621516_n.jpg\" width=\"480\" height=\"360\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Name:<\/strong> Japanese Knotweed<\/p>\n<p><strong>Location:<\/strong> Anywhere, prolific pest species<\/p>\n<p><strong>Months:<\/strong> March, April (and to a lesser extent throughout the year)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Edible Parts:<\/strong> New stalks or top 10cm of stalks<\/p>\n<p><strong>Non-Edible Parts:<\/strong> Anything else<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The stalks of the knotweed are greeny\/red in appearance and are hollow thick tubes. You can harvest the top 10 cm of the stalk throughout the year but the best time to harvest is March\/April when completely new stalks start to emerge (harvest just like Asparagus).<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/sustainablelife.spiderstudio.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/1398535_10152318145846774_2137666760_o.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-311\" alt=\"japanese knotweed\" src=\"http:\/\/sustainablelife.spiderstudio.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/1398535_10152318145846774_2137666760_o.jpg\" width=\"1136\" height=\"852\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>To eat, peel and cook the stalks like a sweet treat. The flavour is slightly sweeter than rhubarb but has the same flavour. This makes it great in crumbles! Just like rhubarb, you shouldn&#8217;t eat it in large amounts so use as a spring time treat only.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Japanese Knotweed is a pest species in the UK. It&#8217;s pretty prolific stuff and even the smallest scrap can spread and take over an area very quickly. Therefore, we stick to two points: Eat the stuff &#8211; Anything to hinder it&#8217;s growth has to be a good thing. Always be extremely careful when approaching. Do &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/sustainablelifebirmingham.co.uk\/index.php\/freefood\/japanese-knotweed\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Japanese Knotweed<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,12,4,13],"tags":[71,72],"class_list":["post-309","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-april","category-forage","category-freefood","category-march","tag-japanese-knotweed","tag-rhubarb"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sustainablelifebirmingham.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sustainablelifebirmingham.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sustainablelifebirmingham.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sustainablelifebirmingham.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sustainablelifebirmingham.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=309"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sustainablelifebirmingham.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sustainablelifebirmingham.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=309"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sustainablelifebirmingham.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=309"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sustainablelifebirmingham.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=309"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}