The nightmare plant spreads across the country: "As in the Alien movies"

The plant, which can become a nightmare for homeowners, is spreading throughout Sweden, but is particularly good in the southern and southwestern part of the country.

- Parksliden has an extremely strong root system. It can get into broken sewage and drainage pipes, it can enter fragile foundations on the house and enter through walls and asphalt via cracks, says the plant ecologist and researcher Jörgen Wissman at the Center for Biological Diversity who followed this and other invasive alien species on close up for a long time.

In the worst case, the park slider can grow three meters in a year and then suffocate other plants in its vicinity. In England, as a homeowner, you risk not wanting to buy your house if the plant has appeared in its vicinity. Cemeteries, where the plant cannot be excavated, have been left to their fate and become jungles in the UK, says Jörgen Wissman.

- It is almost impossible to get rid of the plant if it thrives. When you snatch it or watch it, it reacts like the Alien movies. Then the roots spread from the plants up to seven meters below the ground. You can then risk getting it everywhere, says Jörgen Wissman.

If you choose to dig up the plant, you need to dig several meters around the plant and into the ground. In groups about the plant on social media, many private individuals share photos in which the entire garden was excavated.

But the soil is full of small roots and it is enough to lose a little in the wrong place, so the plant spreads there. The soil must therefore be laid in hard knotted plastic bags and, for example, laid for burning on the tip, never among other plant parts.

- Tow with open grilles is a big problem. With them you risk spreading the plants more than fighting them, says Jörgen Wissman.

It is also important to ask their recycling station if they receive park slides.

In the clip below you will find tips on how to protect against Parkslide

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