I was cleaning out around a big stump that I have let V Creeper grow on. Decided to cut it out. I found this huge root and I know there is more roots going to China!!!!
Posts: 674 | Location: colo | Registered: Oct 09, 2011
If it gets that big in Co., can you imagine how big it can get down here where it can grow year round...where our ground doesn't freeze? I've never tried to dig out one of those YET, but I know Yucca & cat claw can have some HUGE roots down here. Oh, and cat tails...had a friend try to dig that out of the edge of their pond cause it was taking over the pond...more roots to China!
Lady, don't you over-do trying to get that stuff out. At that point I might have painted the root left in the ground with some roundup. I've done that to a couple of things...only put it on the plant I want to get rid of and so far it has worked.
"The soil is the source of life, creativity, culture and real independence." David Ben-Gurion
We kept having tendrils climb through our cedar privacy fence, (from a neighbors yard). I am out every month ripping the stuff off and spraying vegetation killer on the stems and and through the open areas of the fence. So far I am staying a head of it. And it is retreating.
Why someone would want this stuff climbing all over a fence, house or wall...I have not a clue.
You think that is a big root - . Echoing what GAKaren said........try dealing with it down here, and I'm sure her area is worse than mine. It's been years since I had those things and there are still sprouts popping up in the most unexpected places.
I have Virginia Creeper all through the woods and some is even growing on the house. Geeeez I didn't know the roots got THAT big! I'd better pull up the one on the house before it gets any bigger.
Posts: 6878 | Location: Central Florida | Registered: Feb 12, 2005
I've been working at getting rid of it but it comes up every where. Don't know how it got started I've never planted it. And we've lived here 37 yr.Maybe people before us and it just lay dormat. I like it for shade in the summer as we don't have any trees. But almost every yr cut it back. I've got some really good weed stuff I put on it full strength and seems to get rid of it! Gotten rid of it in a few places and will keep working on it. Can't imagine what the roots look like down were you folks live!!!!
Posts: 674 | Location: colo | Registered: Oct 09, 2011
Sorie, it could have originally been a birdie present that spread seeds. That & the wind spreading the seeds down here is how it gets all over the place. Or someone got a seed stuck in a shoe & it dropped in your yard, or car/tractor/lawnmower tires...anything that touches the ground can move the seeds from one place to another.
zone9, I hope you don't have any cat claw! I dug us some tubers at another house where I used to live that wouldn't fit in a bushel basket! Had a big hole to fill in once I finally got them out too.
"The soil is the source of life, creativity, culture and real independence." David Ben-Gurion
