One of the good things to come out of the current lockdown is that we’re rapidly turning into a nation of composters, according to the Royal Horticultural Society.

They have reported a surge in interest in home composting advice since the lockdown as councils curb garden waste collections, with a 500% increase in views of the page ‘how to compost’ in the first nine days of lockdown compared to the same dates last year.

The country may be in lockdown, but Japanese knotweed doesn’t pay heed to such restrictions and is now making itself known in gardens up and down the country. If you’re not sure what you’re looking for, check out our identification page or download our free guide.

So, what should you do and how can we help?

We wanted to find out how much the great British public know about the invasive nature of bamboo, so we carried out a consumer survey with YouGov asking a series of questions about whether people would plant bamboo and what they understand about its ability to spread.