How do you remove wild vines?

Question

I have these vines growing on my trees, plants, fences, and any thing they touch. I have cut them completly but they just grow back within a week. How do i kill them completly?

Answer 1

wait until the first hard frost, then wear protective clothing, and gloves, preferably rubber or leather so nothing penetrates through. cut the vines, just above the ground. dig roots out, and through into a bag.

whatever you do, do Not burn the vines, the toxins can cause illness or worse.

Answer 2

Get a sprayer and concentrated vegetation killer. Pull out all the weeds you can, and spray the rest. Be sure to keep at it for a few weeks until all of them are killed.

Answer 3

There are vine herbicides out there that are formuated to kill vine plants sice they are harder to kill.  The best I've seen is to get the vine killer, take couple plastic film canisters with lids, like what 35 mm come in.  If you are like most people now and have a digital camera and no film canisters, go to a local film processer they will have some.  

Drill or cut a small hole 1/8" or 1/4" in the lid.  Take the canister, lid, the killer, and something sharp to cut the vine with.  You don't want something that will crush the vine when you cut, or the vine tissue will be blocked.  

Cut a tip off the vine about the size or a little smaller than the hole cut/drilled.  Thread the vine through the lid a little ways, pour some vine killer in the canister, put the canister on the lid with the cut vine end in the killer.  

The vine will take up the killer and transfer it along the plant and back to the root.  If the vine dies back partway, then cut the vine where it is still alive and do it again back to the root.  

This works great.  Some regular sprays will kill the vine sprayed but not touch the roots, and it will grow right back.  

If the roots seem unkillable the killer will make it weaker.  You may have to dig some to get as much root as possible and burn them or trash them to get them out of the ground.  Then use the killer on any vines that show, and dig some more.  Make sure you get all the pieces, or they may sprout and start their own plants.  Use the vine killer, and/or dig out any pieces of root anything left may just start again.  

Be persistant, vine plants are hard to kill.