How do you get rid of morning glory vines?
They are invasive and overwhelming my yard.
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Glyphosate. Glyphosate in a 2-percent solution is an effective herbicide for controlling morning glory, but it also kills other plants it contacts. Wild morning glory is difficult to eradicate because it regrows from its roots, which can extend 20 feet into the ground.
Here is additional information for you: https://dengarden.com/gardening/How-to-Get-Rid-of-Morning-Glory-Safely-Permanently
Rip them from the roots and keep at it agressively pulling them any time new ones come up.
This link may help:
https://www.gardeningknowhow.com/ornamental/vines/morning-glory/control-morning-glory-weeds.htm
Pull all the vines you can from the soil, then spray the area well with a mixture of 1 gallon vinegar, 1-cup of table salt. This may need to be repeated if you get a lot of rain. Repeat if you see new morning glory vines starting to grow again.
We plant seeds every year and trellis them so they don't spread. We are very careful about containing them, because when they get out of hand they just go wild, as you said. Start by pulling them out, but make sure you get the entire root. You really have to dig for them, because they're thin and break. Then spray the area with vinegar, be careful to only spray that area, because it will kill everything.
Hi Karen,
We have these too and just hate how they become the bullies of the yard, I pull them out and they seem to come back, one trick is to not let them bloom, they then go to seed and make more. The neighbor who does not take care of their yard has given us all the creeping charlie and morning glories you can imagine.
White vinegar kills everything and that is what we use...along with pulling them out as often as possible. It is usually easier to pull them after it rains.
Also we put down cardboard as a physical block.
I dug mine out then poured white HOT vinegar on the area they were growing in