In alt.home.repair, on Tue, 15 Sep 2020 09:42:34 -0700, Bob F
wrote:

On 9/15/2020 4:42 AM, trader_4 wrote:
On Sunday, September 13, 2020 at 2:15:56 PM UTC-4, Joshua Snow wrote:
"micky" wrote in message
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I have vines growing up in the middle of my bushes. What to do?

They look bad.

At least once a year, I rip or cut out parts I can see, but that still
leaves the stems and they grown back.

Some have grown 20 feet up the trees that are in the middle of the
bushes.

How can I now use, or have used herbicide, without killing the evergreen
bushes that surround them?

I cut the vines back as you have done and apply neat
Roundup to the cut top of what remains in the ground.

Works fine.



Or cut off the top part, but leave a couple feet near the ground that you
can pull out of the bush to apply the Roundup. Or if it the top is accessible
growing above the bush, treat that part with RU, without getting it on the
bush. Gloves and a rag work.

So does stuffing it in a cardboard box loosely, and spraying it there.

Thanks for the good ideas. It may be too cold before I do t h is
stuff, but there is next spring.

I didn't know anyhone used roundup after all the bad press, and I didn't
know roundup (or the eequivalent) killed vines inthe first place.

I did one time get a little crabgrass etc. poison on a branch of the
tulip tree when spraying the grass with the garden hose. I lost 5 big
leaves worth.

And I lost a bunch of low lying evergreen bushes within a few years of
that, the first bush soon after, and I have suspected that I killed it.
(It also had cedar apple whatever, a disease t hat goes back and forth
between apple trees and cedar bushes, but iirc that ended years earlier
with only the loss of a few little bush branches (and the trees. I
bought the last bottle of the only poison that was supposed to kill the
disease. I think they wereen't making any more because it was
dangerous, and I coudln't get up enough nerve to use it.).