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removing wisteria 0tterbot 02-13-2008
`--> Re: removing wisteria Harry 'Snapper'...02-13-2008
Posted by 0tterbot on February 13, 2008, 5:14 pm
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 what is the best way to remove (well, kill) a small wisteria (Wisteria Nutt.) (2 shoots, both
under 1cm diameter) which is growing not only in a weird spot, but also next
to the phone line marker (i know for a fact that the phone line - don't
ask! - is not buried the full 70cm deep).

is carefully digging down a little bit, & then pulling it, going to work?
would zero be better? for some reason i am taken with the idea that wisteria (Wisteria Nutt.)
fights back from removal & will just become a pest if i don't get it right
the first time. is this true?

mainly i desperately want to avoid cutting or pulling up the phone line
(again!!!!!!!)

thanking you!
kylie



Posted by Trish Brown on February 13, 2008, 5:30 pm
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 0tterbot wrote:
> what is the best way to remove (well, kill) a small wisteria (2 shoots, both
> under 1cm diameter) which is growing not only in a weird spot, but also next
> to the phone line marker (i know for a fact that the phone line - don't
> ask! - is not buried the full 70cm deep).
>
> is carefully digging down a little bit, & then pulling it, going to work?
> would zero be better? for some reason i am taken with the idea that wisteria
> fights back from removal & will just become a pest if i don't get it right
> the first time. is this true?
>
> mainly i desperately want to avoid cutting or pulling up the phone line
> (again!!!!!!!)
>
> thanking you!
> kylie
>
>

In my experience, dig and pull is your best bet. A mature wisteria can
travel *miles*, but if yours is only little *get it out now*!!! I
absolutely love the stuff, but given the chance, it will pick up your
house and walk away with it! =:-0

--
Trish Newcastle, NSW, Australia

Posted by Harry 'Snapper' Organ on February 13, 2008, 6:41 pm
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aus.gardens:

>what is the best way to remove (well, kill) a small wisteria (2 shoots, both
>under 1cm diameter) which is growing not only in a weird spot, but also next
>to the phone line marker (i know for a fact that the phone line - don't
>ask! - is not buried the full 70cm deep).
>
>is carefully digging down a little bit, & then pulling it, going to work?
>would zero be better? for some reason i am taken with the idea that wisteria
>fights back from removal & will just become a pest if i don't get it right
>the first time. is this true?
>
>mainly i desperately want to avoid cutting or pulling up the phone line
>(again!!!!!!!)

Neat Roundup painted on the freshly cut stem works pretty well but it
is a very persistant plant.

When I bought this house 30 years ago I had a mature 'one' along the
fence line which I removed - even 10 years later a shoot would appear
but evenually the Roundup beat it


Regards
Harold

Tantum religio potuit suadere malorum - Lucretius


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