Re: Re: Round-Up (formerly Killing weeds with fire?)

The behavior reminds me of my devil in the garden, wild Morning Glory.

It flowers briefly in late summer here in Connecticut. Otherwise, it spends its time growing and wrapping itself around any and all neighboring plants.

I think I've also heard it called bindweed and chokeweed. Could this also be named potato vine in your area?

perennials@mallorn.com wrote:
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Betty Moorman@ZEON
09/27/99 12:58 PM

Margaret,

Be very grateful that you have never heard of potato vine.  It's the bane
of my gardening efforts.  This subject was up for discussion on this list
before.  At that time, I queried the list members about it and apparently
no one on the list (other than me) knew of it.  It is listed in the
Kentucky Wildflowers book, but the pictured one has flowers (which mine
does not have) so I guess mine is a nonflowering variety of that one.  It
is impossible to pull up.  When you try to pull it, the leaf stalks break
off and some of the vine can be broken but the roots do not come up.  It
spreads like wildfire.  My mother had it in her flowers and I guess I
unwittingly brought some home when I transplanted something from her house.
I believe it gets its name from the tiny objects that look like very small
potatoes and grow near the roots .  (Yes, occasionally one can pull up a
vine with roots attached, but rarely.)  Either it is native to only a small
area of Kentucky or other gardeners know it by another name.  I also called
the lady who writes the gardening column for the Louisville Courier-Journal
and she didn't seem to know what I was talking about.




mlaute@micron.net on 09/27/1999 11:27:00 AM

Please respond to perennials@mallorn.com

To:   perennials@mallorn.com
cc:    (bcc: Betty Moorman/Zeon)
Subject:  Re: Round-Up (formerly Killing weeds with fire?)




At 10:43 AM 9/27/99 -0400, you wrote:
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>Betty Moorman@ZEON
>09/27/99 10:43 AM
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>Early in the season, when we still had RAIN, I painted lots of the leaves
>of the vile potato vine with Round-Up.  I used this tedious method of
>application because is has interspersed itself with  myrtle.  The Round-Up
>did a moderately effective job of killing the potato vine and the myrtle
>seemed to have been spared damage.  Now I notice the myrtle in that area
>looks unusually stressed.  All the myrtle is stressed from lack of rain
but
>this area looks nearer death.  Is it possible since the two plants were so
>close together that some of the Round-Up transferred from the potato vine
>roots to the myrtle roots?
>
>For the record, when I refer to "myrtle" it can be translated "vinca
minor"
>and/or "periwinkle".
>
>Betty
>North-central Kentucky
>
What is potato vine? I never heard of it, and none of my references to
weeds mention it. Margaret L

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