what is the best way to remove (well, kill) a small wisteria (2 shoots, both
under 1cm diameter) which is growing not only in a weird spot, but also next
to the phone line marker (i know for a fact that the phone line - don't
ask! - is not buried the full 70cm deep).

is carefully digging down a little bit, & then pulling it, going to work?
would zero be better? for some reason i am taken with the idea that wisteria
fights back from removal & will just become a pest if i don't get it right
the first time. is this true?

mainly i desperately want to avoid cutting or pulling up the phone line
(again!!!!!!!)

thanking you!
kylie

0tterbot wrote:
what is the best way to remove (well, kill) a small wisteria (2 shoots, both
under 1cm diameter) which is growing not only in a weird spot, but also next
to the phone line marker (i know for a fact that the phone line - don't
ask! - is not buried the full 70cm deep).

is carefully digging down a little bit, & then pulling it, going to work?
would zero be better? for some reason i am taken with the idea that wisteria
fights back from removal & will just become a pest if i don't get it right
the first time. is this true?

mainly i desperately want to avoid cutting or pulling up the phone line
(again!!!!!!!)

thanking you!
kylie



In my experience, dig and pull is your best bet. A mature wisteria can
travel *miles*, but if yours is only little *get it out now*!!! I
absolutely love the stuff, but given the chance, it will pick up your
house and walk away with it! =:-0

--
Trish {|:-} Newcastle, NSW, Australia

On Wed, 13 Feb 2008 22:14:22 GMT, "0tterbot" wrote in
aus.gardens:

what is the best way to remove (well, kill) a small wisteria (2 shoots, both
under 1cm diameter) which is growing not only in a weird spot, but also next
to the phone line marker (i know for a fact that the phone line - don't
ask! - is not buried the full 70cm deep).

is carefully digging down a little bit, & then pulling it, going to work?
would zero be better? for some reason i am taken with the idea that wisteria
fights back from removal & will just become a pest if i don't get it right
the first time. is this true?

mainly i desperately want to avoid cutting or pulling up the phone line
(again!!!!!!!)

Neat Roundup painted on the freshly cut stem works pretty well but it
is a very persistant plant.

When I bought this house 30 years ago I had a mature 'one' along the
fence line which I removed - even 10 years later a shoot would appear
but evenually the Roundup beat it


Regards
Harold

Tantum religio potuit suadere malorum - Lucretius

"0tterbot" wrote in message
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what is the best way to remove (well, kill) a small wisteria (2 shoots,
both under 1cm diameter) which is growing not only in a weird spot, but
also next to the phone line marker (i know for a fact that the phone
line - don't ask! - is not buried the full 70cm deep).

is carefully digging down a little bit, & then pulling it, going to work?
would zero be better? for some reason i am taken with the idea that
wisteria fights back from removal & will just become a pest if i don't get
it right the first time. is this true?

mainly i desperately want to avoid cutting or pulling up the phone line
(again!!!!!!!)

Cut it off and within 30 seconds of doing the cut put pure undiluted
glyphosate (at the 360g/Litre concentration) on the cut surface suing a
paintbrush. If it resprouts (unlikely) do the same thing again.

"FarmI" ask@itshall be given wrote in message
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"0tterbot" wrote in message
...
what is the best way to remove (well, kill) a small wisteria (2 shoots,
both under 1cm diameter) which is growing not only in a weird spot, but
also next to the phone line marker (i know for a fact that the phone
line - don't ask! - is not buried the full 70cm deep).

is carefully digging down a little bit, & then pulling it, going to work?
would zero be better? for some reason i am taken with the idea that
wisteria fights back from removal & will just become a pest if i don't
get it right the first time. is this true?

mainly i desperately want to avoid cutting or pulling up the phone line
(again!!!!!!!)

Cut it off and within 30 seconds of doing the cut put pure undiluted
glyphosate (at the 360g/Litre concentration) on the cut surface suing a
paintbrush. If it resprouts (unlikely) do the same thing again.

well people, i've got one dig and pull, and two glysophates! :-D any other
votes?
kylie