I have an enormous problem with wild honeysuckle! I've pulled and yanked, and still have plenty of it! I've got so much of that I am thinking about going into basket weaving! LOL! How in the world do you get rid of it? It really smells good when in bloom and the hummers love it...but I don't. HELP!
Wild honeysuckle!
I usually wait until the ground is moist and then pull what I can up by the roots. What I don't get, I have to spray with brush-b-gone.
Thanx! Can I get it at Lowe's? ~~You can get anything but clothes and food at Lowe's! LOL
You can get it at Lowe's and Wal-Mart. It's cheaper in the long run to buy the concentrate and a pump up sprayer and mix it up yourself. It may take treating it several times, honeysuckle is really stubborn.
A local nursery owner recommends the Honeysuckle popper: http://davesgarden.com/gwd/c/4925/
I agree about pulling by hand when the ground is moist. It sure is hard to keep up with, though.
Thanx for the link! and Wally-world is much closer than Lowe's. It doesn't pay for me to go to Lowe's anyway...I spend too much money there.
Do you have the bush type, or the vine type? We have the vine types around here that get up into the trees like wisteria.
guy, I have both, but am not bothered by the bush as it serves as a hedge in places for me. The vines are into everything - flowers, trees, blackberry vines, grape vines - absolutely everything! I would say that I have more than enough to weave baskets...
Equilibrium
Aug 05, 2006
Have any of you actually used one of these honeysuckle poppers or am I going to be the experimental guinea pig?
The bush honeysuckles are pretty shallow rooted but they do get pretty big over the years. Sometimes the riding lawn mower and a chain just aren't good enough to yank them out.
I haven't used one because I'm a little put off by the price. But looking at the design, I think I can see how it could work well.
There was someone on another forum that said Vine-X works on poison ivy. HMMM... wonder if it will work on honey suckle?
Found this thread doing a search for ways to get rid of an acre of very old, well-established wild honeysuckle. I've pulled up and out for years at other homes I've had, and of course I can do that here.
I was hoping (dreaming?) for some information about pH or nutrients that could affect the ability to grow. Mine is on a steep hillside, and some of the much older roots I have dug so far are the size of my thumb or larger. The vines are several inches deep across the ground, and completely cover whatever else is growing there. Last fall I found 3 old and almost dead crab apple trees under the vines. I spent half a day pulling and cutting vines out of those trees and still left about 1/4 covered.
There are lots of briars up there, red and black raspberries mostly, so I'm assuming the soil is acidic. I had thought to lime it really good but I really don't want to change the pH since I want to grow blueberries there.
The honeysuckle popper is much too expensive. I can make a fulcrum and a lever cheaply.
Anyone have any "new" ideas?
Sorry, no new ideas on getting rid of the honeysuckle, but I wouldn't assume the soil is acidic because you have the berries growing there--I had alkaline soil at my old house and the wild blackberries that kept sneaking in seemed perfectly happy.
Thanks... I have since come to the same conclusion, and will have a soil test done soon!