2006-09-29 08:47:55 · 10 answers · asked by dday002002 1 in Home & Garden ➔ Garden & Landscape
morning glories are annual vines in the northern states. there should be no need to kill one, just either pull it out or wait for it to be killed by frost. you could try denying it water.
if you are into chemicals, there are all sorts of them.
2006-09-29 08:52:37 · answer #1 · answered by velvt_wi 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The wild version of morning glory, bind weed, is very hard to get rid of. The plant will keep growing as long as there are pieces of it in the soil. The best way to eliminate it is to use Killex, a broad leaf weed killer. Unfortunately this will kill anything that it gets on, except grass. One suggestion is to move all the plants from the infested garden before treating the weed with weed killer. If that is too daunting a task, putting sticks in the ground close to the center of each morning glory plant, encouraging the plants to climb away from the other plants and carefully painting or swabbing the morning glory leaves can be effective. Diligence is the key. All plant matter, including roots, needs to be removed and destroyed or new plants will grow. Good Luck.
2006-09-30 06:00:39 · answer #2 · answered by katbrev 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If you are talking about bindweed, the white flowered weed, then it is very difficult to kill. If you pull it out and keep pulling it out when you see it growing back it could take years to get rid of. You can use Roundup and that will kill some of it, but some will probably grow back. Of course, if you let it grow it will take over, so keep at it and good luck. If you are talking about Morning Glory, the pretty blue and sometimes other colored vine, it can be pulled up and will go away if there are no more seeds in the soil.
2006-09-29 11:43:35 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Morning glories will advance everywhere each and anytime, and they reseed like mad,so eliminating them through poison only isn't worry-free. i'd weed whack them, no matter if it really is conceivable, because grass can take being mown, ipomoea no longer a lot. Then i'd poison what changed into left very very intently in an attempt to get their tubers. If no longer conceivable to whack, i'd crawl alongside anyplace they are turning out to be and cut back all their stems over and throughout again. If I were formidable and lively and somewhat hated them, i'd also melt the soil and dig all the way down to get their tubers. The tubers will be extremely huge in the experience that they have got been there for awhile, and the sap from them would worsen your epidermis. it really is gonna take you awhile.
2016-11-25 02:47:04 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Your best bet is to move. Morning glories are one of the hardiest plants imaginable. Odds are, you will never rid your yard of them. Sorry for the bad news.
2006-09-29 09:01:34 · answer #5 · answered by barefoot_yank 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Lots of Round Up
2006-09-29 08:55:03 · answer #6 · answered by jaa9636 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Burn it, possibly, but not if its on your house or other property,
or dig it up.
Not knowing if the vine is on your lawn, but if your lawn was nourished better, the lawn would choke it out.
Particular herbicides as well.
2006-09-29 09:13:20 · answer #7 · answered by ? 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Weed be gone works
2006-09-29 08:55:49 · answer #8 · answered by norsmen 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
pull them out before they go to seed
took me 3 years before they stopped returning
2006-09-29 09:14:16 · answer #9 · answered by rvsreno 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
And speaking of chemicals, make sure you hang on to the seeds.....
2006-09-29 08:54:58 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋