This miserable little vine had colonized my entire back and front garden. It is trying to strangle my roses, my native salvias, my flame acanthuseses, and just about everything else. I pull it but it seems to have laid down a grid of runners that go across the whole yard. We’ve pulled some runners that are like 10 feet long easily. Every year I fight a losing battle with it.
I’m also not 100% sure what it is? A bindweed or a morning glory of some kind?
Whatever it is, I hate it, have battled it for years since it came under a neighbors fence, and will take any natural strategies or tips for eliminating it.
by The_Wild_Silence
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I have this on my front fence and it is the worst. I tried to smother it with a black plastic tarp and it popped right back up. I find it to be a pretty slow grower outside of spring though I just keep knocking it down with the weed whacker
The roots of this ivy go way deep, I tried to dig up a clump climbing up one of my oaks, but I couldn’t get to the roots, they’re tangled under the oak roots. And it’s sending
I’ve just had to pull and pull and pull and pull. I’d love to hear if someone has taken a better systematic approach and seen success. The underground root system is so broad.
I’ve shredded my arms trying to rip this shit it off my climbing rose. Every spring it just comes back and the roots are thick like a cable and the longest one I pulled was easily 10 feet. I think it’s just a lifelong battle 🙁
Carolina snailseed. It’s all over my yard too.
That’s our friend snailseed vine or carolina snailseed vine. I’ve been the same situation or a yard wide takeover and started digging and pulling the vines out the spring before last. It‘s a little maddening since it seems to take a broken off runner as an invitation to sprout anew, as you might know by now. I‘ve only seen a couple of sprigs this year in spots where there must be some roots or tubers deeper than I’ve been willing to dig. I think there’s hope of starving these off eventually, but runners can still come in from my neighbor’s side of the fence and birds will be dropping seeds from the ones in the nearby green belt. I’m anticipating ongoing entertainment from this friend.
This only popped up in my yard a year or so ago. I try to pull it before it gets too long, but it’s completely consumed my neighbor’s yard at this point.
30 years working on it. It spreads underground. A rhizone sends runners in all directions. Old gardener told me his best results were just to keep cutting it short all summer and the dig for the rhizome. Control is the best you can hope for. Officially, I think it is called smilex. My husband and I saved a pecan tree by cutting at 4 ft and at ground level. Then just kept cutting at the ground.