Silver Leaf Vine
 

I have this very annoying vine that is growing all through my garden which I
can't kill.
I have tried a vew different weed killers and none of them are working....
it kills the weed, but within a 1-2 weeks the vine comes up again and again
multiple times....

I tried digging for the bulb and found a few but a lot I didn't find....
when I try to dig and dig it breaks in goes through a small crack in a rock,
then thats as far as I get....
I found a few... they are huge... one was a bit smaller than a tennis ball,
another few golf ball sizes... But there must be HEAPS more of these
nasty thing under the dirt but I can't kill them.... anyone got any magic
cures on how to kill the bulbs? I spray poison every week which doesn't
make much difference...

My mum took one of the bulbs home and tried to grow it in a pot... after a
couple of months or more... her's only grew about 20cm.... mine do that at
least in 2 weeks.... She was just interested to see it grow elsewhere...
and try to find out what it is... She saw something similar it at a nursery
and it was called a "Silver Leaf Vine"..

I have been able to find very little information about this on the internet,
but I'm despritye to get rid of it...
Any got any suggestions?

Thanks
Glen

Silver Leaf Vine
 

Glen C wrote:
I have this very annoying vine that is growing all through my garden which I
can't kill.
I have tried a vew different weed killers and none of them are working....
it kills the weed, but within a 1-2 weeks the vine comes up again and again
multiple times....

Hot afternoon, cut stems towards growing tip and insert into a small
container of straight roundup which you tie on. Works a wonder as the
plant keeps sucking roundup down into the roots.

Silver Leaf Vine
 

hmmm Interesting :) I'll give that a go!
I did try just cutting the top off and spraying the naked cut (as opposed
to just staying the leaves). BUt yeah your suggestion might work :)

Thanks



"Terryc" wrote in message
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Glen C wrote:
I have this very annoying vine that is growing all through my garden
which I can't kill.
I have tried a vew different weed killers and none of them are
working.... it kills the weed, but within a 1-2 weeks the vine comes up
again and again multiple times....

Hot afternoon, cut stems towards growing tip and insert into a small
container of straight roundup which you tie on. Works a wonder as the
plant keeps sucking roundup down into the roots.

Silver Leaf Vine
 

"Terryc" wrote in message
...
Glen C wrote:
I have this very annoying vine that is growing all through my garden
which I can't kill.
I have tried a vew different weed killers and none of them are
working.... it kills the weed, but within a 1-2 weeks the vine comes up
again and again multiple times....

Hot afternoon, cut stems towards growing tip and insert into a small
container of straight roundup which you tie on.

Care to explain this a bit better? I'm curious.

Jen

Silver Leaf Vine
 

"Glen C" writes:
I have this very annoying vine that is growing all through my garden which I
can't kill.

If it's the one I'm thinking of, with leaves like crinkled sorrel leaves,
then getting the tuber is only half the problem. You need to find the
nearby source of the seeds, maybe a neglected garden or neighbouring wall.
This vine produces a prodigous number of seeds, they hang by the thousands
in decorative garlands. The young seedlings are very easy to pull out,
before the 6 leaf stage when they have yet to develop their tuber.

I expect that constant spraying of emergent leaves will eventually kill
off the tuber.
--
John Savage (my news address is not valid for email)

Silver Leaf Vine
 

Jen wrote:

Hot afternoon, cut stems towards growing tip and insert into a small
container of straight roundup which you tie on.


Care to explain this a bit better? I'm curious.

Plants are pumping more fluids to and from the leaves on hot days. So
when you cut the tip off a vine and immediately stick it into a small
container of roundup, it starts sucking the stuff back into the plant,
With a little luck it will reach the roots before it starts killing off
the plant.

Worked a treat on a neighbours vine that kept invading my garden shed
and he declined to trim. Shed locaion in back corner meant that I
couldn't get in there either (yes, the fence had been relocated).

I have also found that scrapping vine stems and painting (small artists
paint brush) roundupo will sicken a lot of plants.

Silver Leaf Vine
 

Glen C wrote:
hmmm Interesting :) I'll give that a go!
I did try just cutting the top off and spraying the naked cut (as opposed
to just staying the leaves). BUt yeah your suggestion might work :)

We kill off a lot of roots for privet and such by cutting the stem/trunk
and painting stump(small 1/2" paintbrush) or cut vines (small artists
brush).

I used the bottle of roundup on a vine that kept reoccuring. Figured
that we were not getting enough poison back into the roots but the cut
and paint method.