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Potato vine

How to Control:

  1. Hand pull removing all vegetation & roots.
  2. Cut stump application: Cut stems and treat with (100ml Tordon Brushkiller®/1L water), or Vigilant gel, or (100ml triclopyr/1L water).
  3. Cut aerial stems at knee height, leave hanging; knapsack spray plant material below spring-summer (100ml glyphosate + 20ml penetrant/10L water) or (60ml triclopyr + 10ml penetrant/10L water).

Easy to kill. Follow up within 3 months, regrowth is rapid.

CAUTION: when using any herbicide or pesticide PLEASE READ THE LABEL THOROUGHLY to ensure that all instructions and safety requirements are followed.

Click here for more information on the herbicides referenced in the control methods, or here for more information on the suggested techniques.

For more information and pictures of this weed check out this Auckland Council info page.

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Its beautiful estuary, a great surf beach, the sandspit with its special terns and dotterels and the wonderful natural environment combine to make Mangawhai the place to be. Unfortunately, parts of these special places are becoming overrun with garden plants that have ‘jumped the fence’ since early pioneers introduced them. Many were brought here as […]

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