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

Hi!
Now that you mention those potato looking things on it, I remember my
Sister-in-law planting that vine on her fence. I think she planted it with
the same Ivy my husband has been waging war on for about 10 years now.I'll
have to ask her how her vines are doing and if they are "minding their
manners" and staying where she put them! She offered ey a cutting and now
that I now how hard it is to get rid of, I sure am glad I never got around
to taking her up on it!
Lee Ann Johnson






At 12:58 PM 09/27/1999 -0400, you wrote:
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>Betty Moorman@ZEON
>09/27/99 12:58 PM
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>Margaret,
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>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.
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>mlaute@micron.net on 09/27/1999 11:27:00 AM
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>Please respond to perennials@mallorn.com
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>To:   perennials@mallorn.com
>cc:    (bcc: Betty Moorman/Zeon)
>Subject:  Re: Round-Up (formerly Killing weeds with fire?)
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>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
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>>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?
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>>For the record, when I refer to "myrtle" it can be translated "vinca
>minor"
>>and/or "periwinkle".
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>>Betty
>>North-central Kentucky
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>What is potato vine? I never heard of it, and none of my references to
>weeds mention it. Margaret L
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