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| Hi all!
I need some serious advice.
Chocolate vine (that gorgeous thing over GardeningGramma's back door)
They're taking over. Even the grass. They're pulling down branches of trees, and laughing at me. I sprayed my beloved Round-up all over the chocolate vine, but it seemed to act like fertilizer. I simply cut down the honeysuckles, but you know how they'll come back 10 times stronger. What can I do that will effect their root system? The unspoken is, of course, without killing everything else in the garden. I'm pulling it out every day. I'm even going to dig out a raised bed to get rid of the chocolate vine's home base. Thanks for your thoughts! |
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- Posted by kimka z6B (jkkaplan@erols.com) on Mon, Sep 17, 12 at 9:05
| The best luck I've had withthe stubborn vines is to cut them down to just a few inches and then paint the "open stump" with Green Light Cut Vine and Stump Killer. That stuff even took down my bamboo. |
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| Kim, did you buy that locally? I"m hoping for a systemic murder, given the fact these things are rooting in my grass. I still can't believe Round-Up has been so ineffective this year. |
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- Posted by kimka z6B (jkkaplan@erols.com) on Mon, Sep 17, 12 at 10:18
| I think I bought it at Roozen Nursery & Garden Centers, 9513 Georgia Ave, Silver Spring, MD 20910 (301) 565-9544. But call around because I don't remember for sure. For really tough stuff, like lesser celedine--that horrible invasive tuff that comes out in early spring, I've been buying Round-Up concentrate and using it at triple strength. The thing about Round Up is that it has to be used when the plant is actively growing for it to work. Are you using it late in the day or has the cooler weather just shut down the vine's growing? I found twice last spring, a Roud-Upping had no effect, and then I realized that I was spraying about 5 pm and the plants were no longer actively photosynthesizing. That may have contributed to the failure to kill. |
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| I'll hunt around. I ceased diluting Round-up, but it didn't matter. A lot of things, not just vines, just shook it off. I work at night, so my spraying is in the morning to early afternoon. Plus, I hate the sun and heat, so once the heat kicks in, I'm not in it. Good thought on the photosynthesizing, though. I've got some spraying to do and must this week for any hope of killing. I can tell you I finally killed some persistent mulberry trees, though. Cut them down again and dug holes in the stumps with the saw. Poured Round-up in the impression. Just like you'd fill the bamboo canes with Round-up. I'd use a root killer, but it'd wipe out my gardens. What's survived almost 5 years of neglect deserves to continue to live. |
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