California Gardening: Keeping Morning Glories in Check, 1 by palmbob

palmbob wrote:
planted them at my old house and will never ever do that again... what a mistake... can't kill it with round up... can't dig them all out... once they find a foothold in the garden, they will stay there forever, choking, strangling and pulling down everything... they nearly covered my entire ash tree, and killed the Jacaranda... I was weeding/erradicating for 5 years and got nowhere... but thankfully I don't own that house anymore. I put some in pots this year, and STILL they rooted in the soil right through the bottom of the pot and through a brick patio... but did manage to get all that root out. Yikes! Threw them out last week (bought about 4 oz worth of plant last year and easily tossed out about 100 lbs this year... and all that in a pot and on a trellis!!). Never seen Kudzu out here in So Cal, but hard to imagine it could be worse than this plant. The two pots in this photo turned out to be two, heavy, solid cube-shaped rootballs.. almost no soil left... like an alien invasion!

This message was edited Aug 17, 2006 12:14 AM