"Eggs Zachtly" wrote in message
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I Love Lucy said:

I read the crabgrass tip with vinegar, will try that; this is a
helpful
group as I have had that problem ever since I lived here for over 30
years, was just out digging some up trying to get as much root as
possible because I didn't dig out enough when I planted a new
flowerbed
in front of the house. I did purchase some of that black landscape
stuff, but will need help getting it installed, but it should help
some,
but I doubt it will stop all of it..

Over the years, we have these two kinds of climbing horrors (I guess
they're pretty if you want them). One I'm sure if 5-leaf ivy, the
stuff
people used to grow up their chimneys in the midwest anyway.

Are you talking about Virginia Creeper?

Yes, I'm pretty sure that's what the 5-leaved stuff is called.


The other
kind, I don't know the name of, but I'm pretty sure it isn't poison
ivy,
looks like wild grape a little but no fruit. The stuff will grow
over
your whole house and garage if you let it.

Virginia Creeper quite often grows along side poison ivy.

That is no doubt true, but poison ivy has shinier leaves, the kind I can
identify anyway. There is so much of the other vine around the
neighborhood, we would have had more cases of poison ivy if that is what
it is because several neighbors are probably fighting it, and we pull it
with our bare hands sometimes. The front of the house across the street
is covered with the "other" vine now; I'll have to look more closely to
be sure it isn't VC. I'll see if I can get a photo of it. Mom runs a
day care center, so I doubt they would let poison ivy climb their house.
I do think they should not let it take over because it can get under the
siding and it is now at the rooftop, and it would not be good for it to
get under the shingles.


snip

anyone know the best way or any way to either get rid of the stuff or
keep it at bay better than pulling all the time. I swear it must
spread
those underground root systems they develop from a quite a ways away.

Cut them back to a few inches from the ground, and then paint them
with a
half-strength solution of triclopyr. Everything above the cut will
wither
and die, and the herbicide will do the rest. Painting it on with a
paintbrush will give you better control over the herbicide if there
are
plants in the area that you would like to keep.

If you cut them back, nothing is going to be growing above it unless,
sorry I don't get that part. However, I hadn't heard of that stuff and
will try it. Thanks a bunch. That's one reason I'm leery of having
Chem Lawn come and spray because I'm worried the mist could drift and
damage my flowers which are just seedlings at this point and some larger
ones I set out by the garage. Painting it on would give me a lot more
control although it will be tedious as there is so much of it. I would
have to do it little by little.

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