How to remove bittersweet and other aggressive vines from unwanted areas of our gardens.

What's up! How y'all been? I have some bittersweet native or non native spreading half of my growing area in my backyard and it's covering half of my area and on the tree. How can we remove the aggressive vines from covering up our areas of our backyards without herbicide or nothing like that? Also tried digging the thing up, but keep coming back. Please reach me if you need me. Take care.

Where most weeding in my garden could be compared to a job, bittersweet is better compared to a marathon.

I have been gradually reducing a patch of bittersweet on my property for about three years now. I cut vines leaving about two foot sticking out of the ground so I can keep an eye on them. Every year I'm recutting new sections and draining energy from the plant. Some offshoots get pulled out of the ground along with their associated roots but most of the energy is spent keeping the vines from overtaking trees.

Slow and steady my friend!

What's happening! Are there ways to transplant the native bittersweet to a less sensitive place instead of clumping with other plants in my gardens? Do we have to dig those by the root? How we care for those after they been dug out and plant or store them to a secure place?

I've got similar problems with convolvulus (bindweed, morning glory) and now comfrey appearing in places where I Do Not Want it. If I can set aside an area for a season, I put down pieces of plywood or roofing iron to deprive them of light for six months or more. This does the trick, but you have to accept not being able to grow anything in that space for that time.