Is there a way to kill garden weeds & vines without using chemicals?
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Get out there and dig them out or hire someone to do for you. Use boiling water or epsom salt followed by boiling water on the offending weeds. I use vinegar too, but not good around lilacs.
Japanese Honeysuckle is a common invasive plant in the Southeast. The shade tolerant vine occurs along field edges, right-of-ways, under dense canopies, and high in canopies. This invasive vine colonizes by prolific vine growth and seeds that are spread by birds.
Here are four ways to help control this invasive plant; the first three are organic and the last is chemical.
If a thicket is present, cut all stems back to the ground with a mower or weed-eater, if possible. Allow the cut stems to re-sprout, then spot-spray the sprouts with a 5% solution of glyphosate with surfactant.
If mechanical vine control prior to herbicide application is impractical, you can spray the stand with a 5% glyphosate and surfactant solution in late summer, but note that non-target plants may be at higher risk with this method. Increase solution strength if necessary and re-treat as needed for complete control.
Note: Some sources recommend foliar-spraying on a warm day in winter to reduce damage to other non-target plants but this has not proven to be a reliable method as the honeysuckle has to be actively growing to take up the herbicide and the non-target plants have to be completely dormant.
Get out your weed killer, cut off the offending plants and paint with a strong grass and weed killer on the cut stumps only. It will eventually absorb into the roots and not harm your other plants you want to keep. You may need to repeat it, but make sure you don't get it on anything but the cut stump.
Vinegar plus salt in a spray bottle should kill most of the weeds on a sunny hot day.
Vinegar