What is the best way to "totally" get rid of an invasive Honeysuckle?
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Dan Wedepohl
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We have lived at our house for many years and in that time have battled an invasive honeysuckle species. We have tried the shrub poison, digging it up, and burying it. We're not allowed to use those garden torches in our county. The poison killed the leaves, but it seemed the shrub\vine came back stronger the next spring. 
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It's definitely a hard one to battle with:
Pour 6 tablespoons of concentrated water-dispersable herbicide containing 18 percent glyphosate and 1 gallon of water in a plastic or plastic-lined steel compression tank sprayer. Add 2 tablespoons of red or blue dye formulated for herbicide use in the tank and shake it for one to two minutes to incorporate everything. Reduce the amount of glyphosate as needed if using a spray bottle. For example, if you have a 1-quart spray bottle, you would mix 1 1/2 tablespoons of glyphosate and 1 1/2 teaspoons of dye with 1 quart of water.
Cut back the honeysuckle’s main stem to 1-inch above soil level using lopping shears or, if cutting a stem larger than 1-inch wide, a pruning saw. Make the cuts cleanly and straight across.
Set the honeysuckle’s scaffold of branches aside for disposal later. Pull all stems emerging from the main stem and place them with the scaffold. Wipe the top of the stump with a moist cloth if you used a pruning saw.
Spray the stump’s cut surface with glysophate immediately after cutting the main stem. Rest the tip of the nozzle against the cut surface of the stump and gently squeeze the trigger to release a few drops of glyphosate. Spread the glyphosate the cut surface with the nozzle. This application method minimizes overspray and drift.
Cut and spray the remaining honeysuckles one at a time. You have a small window of time, maybe two or three minutes, to apply glyphosate before the stump starts to callus over, inhibiting the transfer of glyphosate to the vascular system.
Hey, the new RoundUp gel is so great for fighting all kinds of invasive plants. The regular RoundUp is lighter than air and can only be used on days with NO WIND, the gel can be used anytime. Honeysuckle is tenacious with all the underground runners which can root and live without the parent plant. Perseverance will eventually overcome the noxious weed!! RobbieAnn
No round up. Use vinegar. Sacrafice a season, then clear out. Amend soil with good compost. Lay landscape fabric, replant, then mulch.
Roundup is dangerout to use! It has caused Non Hodgkin's disease, and is a suspect carcinogen! Be smart and stay far away from that stuff. It's in ALL foods that are not organic, especially corn! It's not effective after a year and it needs to be applied every year, so be safe (and healthy) and use homemade. Roundup is poisoning our planet and killing our pollinators. When they're gone we have only 4 years left to live! Think about that...