| For Calystegia (the white bindweed) try putting down a thick layer of untreated sawdust, spread 30-60cm wide and 10-15cm deep, starting at the fenceline and into your place. The roots come up into the sawdust and it becomes quite easy to haul out yards of the stuff. If it's growing through the root system of a well-established shrub (it usually does!) break off the stem close to the ground so it doesn't make enough growth to get to flowering. Cautiously try painting it with the prepared Roundup, using one of those applicator sponges and your hands in plastic gloves. Allow about eight hours of dry weather. If it rains early, you could be faced with a sick shrub and a sniggering bindweed. If you've got the blue morning glory (you can see it growing beside the railway line on the way out to Johnsonville) - Ipomoea - do the same. The bindweed likes a silky soil and gets a bit discouraged with grit or sawdust. Not quite as rampant but it does persist. Ivy. English? Or Cape? Or German? For English ivy - rip and snip - and patrol relentlessly for seedlings if the parent plants are old enough to produce berries. You can grub out older plants. Personally, I haven't noticed them coming away from the roots, provided that the above-ground growing point has been removed. If you can't get at the root system, then painting with a brushweed killer is probably your answer BUT BE VERY CAREFUL because some of those products do linger in the soil. The two Senecios that climb and look a bit ivy-ish are reasonably easy to eradicate by cut and pull, but re-infestation is possible if they're found upwind of where you live. | 
