{"id":3203,"date":"2009-06-18T01:13:08","date_gmt":"2009-06-18T06:13:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/?p=3203"},"modified":"2016-05-02T01:26:58","modified_gmt":"2016-05-02T06:26:58","slug":"getting-rid-of-the-dreaded-air-potato-vines","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/getting-rid-of-the-dreaded-air-potato-vines\/","title":{"rendered":"Getting rid of the dreaded air potato vines"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"air-potato8\"<\/a>I just took a lap around the property spraying the\u00a0 Air Potato Vines<\/a> with Round Up – yes, Round Up.\u00a0 These vines are so invasive and choke out everything else, the native plants, the exotics, everything.\u00a0 Here’s a great article on Combating Invasive Plants – The Great Air Potato Roundup<\/a> in Gainesville.\u00a0 The first couple of years, I simply dug them up and threw them into the campfire.\u00a0 I’d get hundreds of them.\u00a0 Once I paid my yard guy’s daughter 10c each for them and let her do the work.\u00a0 It was worth it.\u00a0 If I catch them early in the season, and spray the 1.5 solution of Round Up on the emerging tiny leaves as they break the ground, I can nip the invasion in the bud.\u00a0 I used to just pull up the small plant when I saw the tiny leaves, but, more often than not, that leaves the potato seed in the grow to sprout again.\u00a0 The big problem the last couple of years is that a neighbor has them and likes them, so they are left to overgrow their fences.\u00a0 The birds drop seeds over here, too, so my property – the big bird hangout – gets overrun with them.The entire acre on the corner is choked with air potato vines, and I also spray those lots.\u00a0 Anyway, see this stuff in your yard?\u00a0 Round Up.\u00a0 Nothing else works.
\nUPDATE: This was the last time I used Round Up<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

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