Resi-Dig-Out

A great end to a week of coverage across the national and regional BBC!

Nic Seal was interviewed, live, on the BBC Sussex Breakfast Radio Show on Friday 28 July 2017. Presenter Neil Pringle conducted the interview. Neil hosts the daily show and takes an active interest in covering the local and national news.

The interview started with a review by BBC Environment Correspondent Yvette Austin of the Environet led news story featured extensively across the BBC media outlets this week.

July is a great month for Environet on the BBC!

Nic Seal, Managing Director of Environet, was featured on the network's flagship show BBC Breakfast which has a daily audience of 6.5 million.

During the bulletin Environet were taking part exclusively in a Japanese knotweed feature.

July continues to be a great month for media exposure!

Nic Seal, Managing Director of Environet, was featured on the BBC South East Today lunchtime and evening News on 26 July 2017.

During the main bulletins Environet were featured exclusively in a piece entitled "Knotweed Trials".

Another year has passed, making it over 20 years that we've now been in business.  

We've continued to grow, not only on the knotweed front. I'm pleased to say two of our employees have given birth this year, so we now have two beautiful babies being trained up on how best to tackle knotweed. There must be something in the air, as a further two employees are expecting babies in 2017, congratulations to all of them.

Environet are featured in the latest issue of Brownfield Briefing, published in November 2016.

Nic Seal, Managing Director of Environet, explains why the rhizome system makes Japanese knotweed difficult to eradicate. A piece of rhizome the size of your fingernail is enough to generate new growth, causing knotweed to spread.

Japanese knotweed is featured in The Week magazine, published on 5th November 2016.

Japanese knotweed is often featured in the press, often with inaccurate information. The latest feature in The Week magazine makes for a good read, if you’re interested in all things Japanese knotweed, like we are!

This in-depth article on Japanese knotweed covers how it came to be introduced into the UK as well as methods to eradicate the plant.

Trick or treat - don't be fooled, Japanese knotweed is still alive.

It's Halloween again that time of year in the knotweed calendar marking the conclusion of what many people think is the end of the knotweed treatment season. It’s true enough that the knotweed is preparing for its winter dormancy period, where the leaves go yellow and fall, leaving brittle hollow canes, tricking people into thinking the knotweed has at long last died. Of course it’s just disguised as dead, with healthy underground orange rhizomes the colour of pumpkins.

Published on 11th October 2016 on The Business Magazine website.

A property owner was planning to start work on an extension to the back of his house, when an infestation of Japanese knotweed was discovered in his garden. Not only had the knotweed been previously unsuccessfully treated with herbicides, causing new stunted growth which cannot be treated again herbicides; but the tenants had mowed the original area of knotweed, spreading it to other parts of the garden.

As the year draws to a close, plans are made for what lies ahead.

New Year’s resolutions will be made, and inevitably broken. 2016 looks to be our biggest year yet as a company, so in the spirit of ‘out with the old and in with the new’, we decided to rebrand. Rest assured we are still the leading Japanese knotweed removal specialists! We’ve just decided to update our image to bring it into the 21st Century. 

It is that time of year again when Japanese knotweed is dying away ready to spread its damage again in the spring.

Although still standing the bamboo-like canes will soon be brown, brittle and inert eventually decomposing over time. However, the rhizome system beneath the ground is still very much alive, waiting to emerge, bigger and stronger, with new shoots next March and April.