What is this evil vine-like monster??!!
Deb 215 SEWI5
8 years ago
I have been trying to kill this thing for 15 years. I have Round-uped it many times and 5 years ago dug almost to China, yanking it out by its roots. For 5 blissful years I thought I had conquered it. Apparently it has been hiding behind the phlox, gathering strength, before it showed it's evil face again.
what do I have to do to be rid of it? Dynamite?
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Comments (31)"not alleopathic, just very efficient at squelching the competition." Thanks, LZ!! That sounds sensible. Around here, (and you're right, foggy it ain't) this season, when all is terribly dry and brittle everywhere and will be for months, I think I'll leave a layer on the ground of both eucs and the ironwood, and put the mucho extra in the long term bin, watering it every now and again. If I run out of browns for the house pile, in they'll go, in smallish amounts. The house pile is ready for the second pile after about two months - the second I do nothing to and in a month it's useable for lasagna. A thought - our rainy season is October to March. That's it for the year, BTW. If all the allelopathic qualities drip down from fog, would rain do the same thing? That would make dripping leaves "poisoning" the ground 5 months, then the fallen dry ones relatively harmless, ergo useable. I don't want to over think this, but it's very interesting as a general idea about which trees do what and how to deal with them. Thank you all for your reasoned and thoughtful ideas on this!!!! Yes, Israel is a world leader in drip irrigation. Oddly enough, mostly small gardeners use it, larger market farms and agricultural growers use it less. Most of the cutting edge green low tech is not used here, but exported - knowledge and tools - to Africa and Asia, but for some cuckoo reason, it's not used here including low water, solar stuff and all the rest. And pn, see ya on HT!...See MoreWhat is this evil vine?
Comments (7)Fearlessem never came back to say if it was thorny or not... I thought dewberry was a pretty good suggestion. Looks similar to the wild berry vines that are ubiquitous here as well, though the ones here have more of a fuzzy kind of thorn than dewberry pics at the link, kind of invisible but they'll get ya'! Blackberries or black raspberries. Fruit comes on in April....See MoreWhat is this monster vine?
Comments (11)A huge mature vine like this is going to put up a heckuva fight, no doubt. Bittersweet is a notoriously hard-to-kill entity. I don't own any kind of chemicals, but short of bulldozing this whole area and removing the top layer of soil (the good part - a very undesirable idea,) it would be about a full-time job trying to get rid of something like that with only manual efforts, and if faced with the same situation, I would buy something. But it's a common fallacy that a ton of 'cide will be more deadly than applying according to label directions. Since you're willing and able to perform a lot of manual mutilation and removal (which will seriously impede this plants' ability to continue growing,) you should be able to keep the amount of 'cide used to a tiny amount, applied directly and carefully to cut ends, using a product made for this purpose. Something like roundup that affects by being "ingested by leaves" is not what you need for that because you would have to spray a huge amount of product just to apply it according to label directions. Regardless of what's in your neighbor's yard, you probably don't want to dump a bunch of toxins on your own property. When the leaves are all gone later, you can keep working on it if you are so inclined, especially since you intend to remove it all, alive or dead, anyway. The less live vine mass there is, the less stored energy reserves there are to grow back. Unfortunately, you won't know until spring how much is still alive and growing back again. It looks like this vine has spread and may have roots all throughout the area, as mentioned above, and likely seeds have produced individual sprouts as well, which would mean that it's actually a patch of autonomous plants, which will each have to be killed. Concentrate on getting the spot cleared for your tree, and keep attacking the other still-alive parts of the vine in the same way, cutting and pulling what you can, 'cide-ing stumps. Can you pull some of it out with a truck?...See MoreWhat WAS that screaming monster?
Comments (13)Vincent Price was an actor who did a lot of horror films in the last half of his career. In "The Fly" he plays a scientist, I believe, who in a lab accident is turned into a fly that can talk. In one scene, he approaches another character with the tiny voice crying, "Help me, help me!" the only thing that saved him from being swatted. He was in a lot of movies and was an art expert too. If you saw him or heard his great voice, I think you would remember him....See MoreDeb 215 SEWI5
8 years agoDeb 215 SEWI5
8 years agoThanks to Tiffany purpleinopp this vine may be history. It is currently steeping in a Round Up cocktail. Put Round Up mixture into a Mason jar, buried it halfway to keep if from tipping, inserted as much of the vine as I could, held the vine in place with chicken wire, covered the whole shebang with a plastic bag to protect it from the elements and secured the bag with rocks. I am going to let it drink for a week!
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8 years agoDeb 215 SEWI5
8 years agoThe vine has been sitting in the Roundup for 6 days now. It looks dead. I am hoping that it has taken it all the way to the roots and I will never see it again. Found bindweed growing in another spot in the yard and going to give it the same treatment.
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