How to get rid of japanese honysuckle vines?

Question

I live in North Carolina, and my land is over ran with these vines. HELP!

Answer 1

same as kudzu......goats.

Answer 2

Get some goats to eat the vines.

Answer 3

Good luck getting rid of the vines!  Honeysuckle is as fickle as English Ivy.  Pull them from the ground and they come back in a few weeks...

Pull as many vines as you can by the roots and make sure you also pull out the underground rhizomes.  These rhizomes can reproduce and send up new plants in weeks.  They are very hard to eradicate.  Honeysuckle also can reproduce by having its vines root into the ground, creating more vines...

When you pull out these vines, immediately apply an herbicide like RoundUp or anything else containing glycosphate.  This chemical basically chokes the plant's feeding/watering veins and the plant starves.  RoundUp is effective on any plant it touches, so be careful when using this chemical as you should be using any herbicide/pesticide.

If you want to go organic, then you can also try solarizing your soil with plastic. This will take a month at least but the plastic over the soil heats the ground so well it kills all weeds and seeds in that soil, even rhizomes left over from weeds and previously-existing plants.