Last week I had posted about a woody vine problem

[ravena_kade]

Here are photos of the vine. Does anyone recognize it? If so, are there any good ways to get rid of it. I can't dig it up as the roots are in my neighbors yard. I live in Massachusetts

Comments

[ravena_kade]

No blooms. It just grows and strangles the bigger shrubs.

[iheartoothecae]

Honeysuckle. If you can't get the roots, is setting it on fire an option? ;)

http://www.cincinnatibirds.com/wildones/HoneysuckleRemoval.pdf

[ravena_kade]

thanks.

[rhodielady_47]

You have a serious problem on your hands!!!
This is honeysuckle and it takes an extremely strong weedkiller to get rid of it. (Most weedkillers marketed to the homeowner aren't strong enough to kill honeysuckle.)
Please go to your neighbors and explain your problem with their honeysuckle. Perhaps they'd be willing to go 50/50 with you to hire a professional landscaper to come out and apply professional grade weed killer to it.
I had to pay a lot of money several years ago to get rid of a honeysuckle-choked thicket that was invading my property. It was money well-spent as far as I'm concerned since I don't have to fight it any longer.
:]

[ravena_kade]

The neighbor has some drinking issues and is not sober when he is home. He is quiet so the only complaint is this vine. I know he lost his job and his car so money for weeds is not there.

[rhodielady_47]

Sounds like you're going to have to ask his permission to get rid of the vine by yourself then.
And yes, it does need to be done on both sides of the fence/property line. Pruning honeysuckle only makes it grow more vigorously.
:(

[ravena_kade]

Sadly, that won't happen. I have been unemployed for 2 years and I don't have any funds and I have no help. How very discouraging that I have inherited something so bad. I guess I need to give up.

[ravenfeather]

Oh dear.

Japanese Honeysuckle. The same thing I am facing. Unfortunately you have a battle on your hands. I am still trying to "handle" my ten acres on my own, but the state says controlled burn followed by three years of a vine killer is the only thing that works.

Good uck!

[ravena_kade]

Thanks. I only have a 30 ft span if it. I think the main trunk was cut out years ago but the vines are going strong. I think I need to learn to recognize it as it breaks the surface

[virginiadear]

Speaking as another gardener who is battling honeysuckle vines every gardening season, I'm telling you there is nothing "only" about this stuff.
It doesn't matter whether the 30-foot span is a thirty-foot length of vines and branches of vines, or whether it's a thirty-foot long bed of shrubs with honeysuckle growing up through them from multiple sites.

It grows at an amazing---a distressing!---rate of speed. i can't add any advice to what you've been given already, but I do empathize and I wish you success!

[ravena_kade]

Thanks. From the things i have read here I think I just have to give up at this point.