Help with Russian Vine?

Can anybody suggest how to stop my neighbours Russian Vine from making my garden a complete eyesore. It grows (a mile a minute) off their trelis straight into our garden and we are the ones that have to take time to cut it down twice a week. We have thought about putting something over it, but what?as it will just grow through normal fencing. PLEASE HELP

Help with Russian Vine?
The only way to stop these invasive plants from thriving is to pull up the roots.





The only way is then to persuade your neighbour to get rid of them, explaining how ugly they look or ask your neighbour to do the cutting and trimming.
Reply:This isn't very nice of me--- but you could accidently spray it with something and kill it.Deny all knowledge and suggest it was due to some plant disease.
Reply:As the others have said, you can't kill it and you can't live with it.... However... you have a legal right to cut any growth from a neighbours plant that crosses your boundary, but the cuttings remain their property!


Try returning them via their letterbox???
Reply:I am afraid there is little you can do apart form cutting it back as you are doing now. What ever you do don't spray with a weed killer you could find your self being in trouble with the law.





You could try and talk to your neighbours and see if they really like the Russian vine! maybe they are hate it also? you could suggest getting rid of it and contributing towards planting Clematis which would look allot better and be easier to manage.
Reply:use systemic weedkiller like round up with an active ingredient called glyphosphate this will kill back onto there side as well and as russian vine is a problematic weed you will get no come back,





if they planted it recently they broke the law as from about 96 it became illegal to propagate for use in gardens
Reply:Mile a minute (Polygonum baldschuanicum or p. aubertii), is a very hard one to control, it's actually from the (Polygonum Knotweed)family which is illegal to plant, and not the mile a minute which is still planted all over the world. I'm afraid all you can do is prune the vine and of course approach your neighbour. The law has actually changed in recent years and you cant throw the clippings you cut of the vine over the fence anymore. I wouldn't want you to get into trouble, sorry but you will just have to keep trimming for now.


Good luck.


Professional Gardner for 30 odd yrs, and still going.
Reply:Not too sure of the spelling but if memory serves correct then you are referring to Polygonum Baldsuanicum...and funnily enough its colloquial term actually is Mile a minute!


this plant grows approximately 15 feet per Year and as I can testify from experience cutting it produces further branches so as to exasperate the problem!


I found that if you give it nothing to "Hang on to" then it drops back from the wall...SO! if I were you, I would cut it off completely at the top of the fence and it will automatically start sagging back into your neighbour garden (Where it belongs!) You will not be committing an offence by damaging you neighbours property as it was on your side!


%26amp; he should soon get fed up having to re-tie it at his end and may well remove it after a short time!


Good Luck...