zxcvbob wrote:

Bill Spohn wrote:
Also, you can use chemicals like
roundup on the green shoots and this will kill the roots.

I wish it were so - in the case of laurel. Keep on digging/spraying and 5
years
later the damned stuff still crops up.

That means you are using the wrong chemical. The forest services use
Garlon. Do a google search for "garlon, buckthorn" (without the
quotation marks), and substitute full strength Brush B-Gon if you can't
find Garlon or Crossbow.

If such an herbicide doesn't work as a spray, paint it on the leaves at
full strength. Paint both sides of the leaves. When Brush B-Gon was
made of 2,4-T (agent orange) I would still apply it with a brush at full
strength on things such as laurel.

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