Last fall I started messing with my eyesore of a backyard. My neighbors had a 20+ year old WELL ESTABLISHED trumpet vine. We both agreed that it was time to start chopping it down. I got it all chopped up and hauled away, started fixing the fence, and was planning on drilling holes and injecting the stumps with herbicide… then BAM. EF3 tornado in the backyard.
I had bigger fish to fry so biological warfare against the trumpet vine had to take a back seat until at least spring.
Come springtime we had the entire top layer of our yard scraped up and hauled away, new topsoil, leveled and graded, Bermuda sod (and WOW that grass is looking 👌🏼). They used a backhoe to dig out as much of the root system as they could but it’s coming back with a vengeance. The picture at the end was less than 10 days of growth.
Does anyone have any tips for killing this shit besides just keeping it trimmed back?
I recently tried letting it grow out a good amount and then absolutely drowning the leaves in triclopyr. The thought process there was that triclopyr is absorbed through the leaves so more leaves means more gets absorbed, damage goes deeper. The root system in these things can go as deep as 30’ so i figured it was worth trying. I think I messed that up though because I used an herbicide with more than just triclopyr as an active ingredient (white jug, rhymes with PoundPup😬) so it killed the leaves faster than they could absorb the triclopyr deeper into the plant.
Thoughts?
by TAforScranton
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[Here](https://imgur.com/a/GbVldz3) is the other half of the removal and carnage.
And [here](https://imgur.com/a/YZPow8o) is a better video of how the yard looks now. Dont mind the pit. I’m adding a paver patio and outdoor kitchen. The summer heat has convinced me that the project can wait until the weather cools off a little lol.