I dont like using poisons to kill plants, so I use a mixture of white vinegar and kosher salt to do it instead! If you take a gallon of vinegar, a cup of salt, and a tablespoon of liquid dish detergent, and mix it all together, you can either POUR it on the plant or weed, or put it in a spray bottle and spray it. Do this on a sunny day.. the light and heat from the sun will help activate the vinegar/salt mixture and whatever you spray it on will be dead within a day or two
Well Nancy I don't know how big this plant is but my guess is that you cna't just pull it out. So my suggestion would be to cut it down with scissors or pruners or a saw/ax if need be .. as close to the ground as you can get it. If you are talking about a tree with a trunk big around as your wrist or bigger, you can drill down into the center of the trunk (several holes if you can, or one BIG hole, depending on the size of the drill bit you use) and pour some BOILING WATER into it. The water will soak its way down into the root, softening them up a bit, opening any pores along the way, and make it ulnerable to a second, third, and fourth dousing of boiling water in order to kill it off. You'll want to fill the drilled cavity with boiling water every day until you see it dying back, then cover it with a heavy layer of newpaper that you will soak withwater. Cover the newsprint with corrugated cardboard that is slightly larger than the newsprint, which you will soak with water, and weight the cardboard down around the edges. Leave it there, wetting it down whenever it dries out, in order to block the sun from getting to it. Leave it there at least a month, then plant some competition in that spot to keep that unwanted plant from coming back again .... I truly hopes this helps you. GOOD LUCK NANCY :)
This is just the thing! I find this works wonderfully. You have to cut the vine and then brush this on the top of where you cut it. Bonide It will travel down to the roots and kill the plant.
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No way around it, gotta dig it out by hand and be sure to get the roots.
I dont like using poisons to kill plants, so I use a mixture of white vinegar and kosher salt to do it instead! If you take a gallon of vinegar, a cup of salt, and a tablespoon of liquid dish detergent, and mix it all together, you can either POUR it on the plant or weed, or put it in a spray bottle and spray it. Do this on a sunny day.. the light and heat from the sun will help activate the vinegar/salt mixture and whatever you spray it on will be dead within a day or two
It depends on what the plant is and how it grows, from seed or by roots.
Pour salt on plant
Dig dig dig!
Well Nancy I don't know how big this plant is but my guess is that you cna't just pull it out. So my suggestion would be to cut it down with scissors or pruners or a saw/ax if need be .. as close to the ground as you can get it. If you are talking about a tree with a trunk big around as your wrist or bigger, you can drill down into the center of the trunk (several holes if you can, or one BIG hole, depending on the size of the drill bit you use) and pour some BOILING WATER into it. The water will soak its way down into the root, softening them up a bit, opening any pores along the way, and make it ulnerable to a second, third, and fourth dousing of boiling water in order to kill it off. You'll want to fill the drilled cavity with boiling water every day until you see it dying back, then cover it with a heavy layer of newpaper that you will soak withwater. Cover the newsprint with corrugated cardboard that is slightly larger than the newsprint, which you will soak with water, and weight the cardboard down around the edges. Leave it there, wetting it down whenever it dries out, in order to block the sun from getting to it. Leave it there at least a month, then plant some competition in that spot to keep that unwanted plant from coming back again .... I truly hopes this helps you. GOOD LUCK NANCY :)
This is just the thing! I find this works wonderfully. You have to cut the vine and then brush this on the top of where you cut it. Bonide It will travel down to the roots and kill the plant.