Anybody know of a good way to kill trumpet vines?
In a message dated 6/20/06 9:52:39 AM Eastern Daylight Time, BssnRX@AOL.COM
writes:
<< Anybody know of a good way to kill trumpet vines?
Heh heh, they sure do spread, don't they. Keeping them mowed is the only way
I keep them out of the lawn, the flower gardens are another matter. I just
keep hacking at them.
Mary Ann
James,
I think they are beautiful except when placed in the wrong spot. Mine is/was planted as a screen by me ( don't say anything ;-( ) and the lower part of the main branch is/was 6" in diameter. I cut that about two feet from the ground this winter. Now it has grown as big as last year completely covering the old dead main branch. I don't like it because it gets sappy when it flowers and the ants crawl all over it and because it is close to the house they crawl up the branches and then into the house. UGH! I am going to have to take down the divider which has a seat on each side with storage under the seats ( all redwood ) and then cut out as much of the root as possible and smother it with cardboard and mulch or put hardscape over it like large stepping stones or concrete to get rid of it.
If I had a very large property, I have always thought that one would look nice on a fence on the far end of that property. They are very messy, dropping flowers and leaves also. I have the orange one, which is not my favorite color anyway.
Good luck, Sue
Plant Spirit Herbals in No. Calif.
James Kirker
Anybody know of a good way to kill trumpet vines?
What about vines like wild morning glory? One person said that is what
is growing with my clematis and in other parts of the garden.
Killing things does not have to be such hard work. Why not cut the stem =
and put some petroleum yelly on the wound? WD40 might be good for the =
same reasons.
john
and then cut out as much of the root as possible and smother it with =
cardboard and mulch or put hardscape over it like large stepping stones =
or concrete to get rid of it.
Sue
Plant Spirit Herbals in No. Calif.
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Sent: Tuesday, June 20, 2006 9:52 AM
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Subject: Killing trumpet vines
Anybody know of a good way to kill trumpet vines?
We had one at the church that the power company cut down and sprayed =
with
=93Round up=94 6 years ago because it was climbing up the utility pole =
and
getting into the transformer up there and we are still pulling sprouts =
and
now I=92m finding them in places it wasn=92t and far away from where it =
was
growing. Only way is to just cut it down and keep cutting it down until =
it
does give up, many years from now.
Kimm
103 here today in No. Calif. - Sat. is supposed to be 109 degrees F. Ugh! And I am watering my neighbors gardens too. Sue
Plant Spirit Herbals in No. Calif.
Mary Ann Mikulski
I'll let Laura tell you what her weather was like today, but I think the
temperature approached 100 deg. F.
In a message dated 6/21/06 6:06:26 PM Eastern Daylight Time,
tomory@XTRA.CO.NZ writes:
<< Winter is upon us herewith a vengeance and we are feeling it all the more=
because the previous two were so remarkably mild. This year we have had
first a series of light frosts (minus little more than1=B0C) and since then=
a
number of storms each lasting several days with heavy sleety rain, hail plu=
s
snow on the high hills. We have just had a night of downpour which yielded
considerably over 2 inches and the day is full of sullen overcast showers
and biting wind. This makes a great contrast to yesterday morning which was=
still, sunny and springlike for an hour or two before clouding over again .=
Luckily both Tony and I realized it was a fleeting moment and escaped
outside for a while - me to the garden and Tony for a walk in the sun. Now
we expect to hole up again for the next three tree days or so.
We are of course nowhere near so badly off as many farmers in rural
Souhtland in their big snow dump, some of whom were still without power
yesterday ten days after the big storm. >>
I'll let Laura tell you what her weather was like today, but I think the
temperature approached 100 deg. F.
Mary Ann
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From: Organic Gardening Discussion List [mailto:OGL@LSV.UKY.EDU] On Behalf
Of James Kirker
Sent: Tuesday, June 20, 2006 9:52 AM
To: OGL@LSV.UKY.EDU
Subject: Killing trumpet vines
Anybody know of a good way to kill trumpet vines?
We had one at the church that the power company cut down and sprayed with
"Round up" 6 years ago because it was climbing up the utility pole and
getting into the transformer up there and we are still pulling sprouts and
now I'm finding them in places it wasn't and far away from where it was
growing. Only way is to just cut it down and keep cutting it down until it
does give up, many years from now.
Kimm
I once encountered one vine which was colonizing steadily from its fence
home across a lawn and was regularly mowed with little sign of
discouragement! They are handsome in flower but that was what finally
convinced me I did not want to own one!
Although many of us tend to think of weedkillers as being lethal to
everything they contact this is not necessarily so. May years ago before I
realized the iniquities of using these substances I remember spraying
Roundup over an area of mixed weeds and coming back later to find plants of
one weed, dovesfoot (Geranium molle) bright green and unaffected in the
midst of devastation.
In contrast another time I was spraying Dicamba (sold here as Woody
Weedliller) to deal with Japanese Honeysuckle. This preparation as its name
implies deals very effectively with many woody plants but to my surprise it
had absolutely no visible effect on the honeysuckle. In the end I took out
the unwanted plant with Roundup.
Come to think of it, I do have one further example of Roundup proving all
too effective on a woody subject AND in my own garden. Many years ago the
City Council planted cherry trees along the berm in Hine Road and we
sprayed round the base of ours to tidy up and remove the grass and weeds
just close to the stem. To our dismay the poor tree sickened and died, even
though it had a substantial well-barked trunk which instructions with the
pack assured us would protect it from damage. Well, we went off shamefaced
to our local garden centre and were lucky enough to find a proper
replacement so the Council never knew what had happened and our second tree
is still with us and now quite mature.(We were lucky to be able to find one
of the correct variety).
We had one more scare with this tree two winters ago (nothing to do with
weedkillers though). A crew of men came down the street in winter and
started cutting back the trees. I went out in a great flurry to protect my
"baby" but the two young men working on it assured me they were trained
arborists and would not harm it and certainly they made a good job of
thinning and raising the crown a little so it would not be in the way of
passers- by. I have not seen them since and this winter if they do not come
back I think I shall have to do a bit of thinning myself once more to keep
the tree completely tidy. Cherries are untidy growers.
Winter is upon us herewith a vengeance and we are feeling it all the more
because the previous two were so remarkably mild. This year we have had
first a series of light frosts (minus little more than1?C) and since then a
number of storms each lasting several days with heavy sleety rain, hail plus
snow on the high hills. We have just had a night of downpour which yielded
considerably over 2 inches and the day is full of sullen overcast showers
and biting wind. This makes a great contrast to yesterday morning which was
still, sunny and springlike for an hour or two before clouding over again .
Luckily both Tony and I realized it was a fleeting moment and escaped
outside for a while - me to the garden and Tony for a walk in the sun. Now
we expect to hole up again for the next three tree days or so.
We are of course nowhere near so badly off as many farmers in rural
Souhtland in their big snow dump, some of whom were still without power
yesterday ten days after the big storm.
Moira
