Horror plant in Arie and Monique's garden: pigs as a last resort

Omroep Brabant

Horror plant in Arie and Monique's garden: pigs as a last resort

Arie and Monique Bankers from Ginderdoor (near Mariahout) fought against the Japanese Knotweed for months. Nothing seemed to help. It would cost tens of thousands of euros to have the “horror plant” removed from their garden. Especially for combat, they bought a cheaper weapon: two pigs “They eat everything.” Two years ago, the couple bought a house, including a metre-wide field of tall weeds. They were not told that it was the very persistent p…