Wisteria roots - Roundup?

I'd try copper nails first into the stump which you now call roots also try to smother it as an option.

Bill

Below deals with roundup.

RoundUp must be applied and absorbed through the leaves, then it will kill the entire plant including the root system. You could take the patience approach, and just keep cutting off any new shoots--it will eventually die and the roots will rot.

While roundup works well on growing foliage, brush b gone and similar herbicides are quite effective when burshed onto freshly cut stumps and stubs. By fresh I mean one person cuts and the other immediately applies without delay.

Yes. Roundup works very well on freshly cut roots/stumps

When my neighbor bought his house it was terribly overgrown with completely out of control wisteria. His nurseryman told him it would take 5 years of digging up the roots to get rid of it.

This is year 5 - it's still coming up (and still trying to come up in my yard). Roundup is a post-emergent herbicide (weeds). A brush killer will knock it back, but it will almost certainly re-emerge.

Sorry!

- Mark

Well...thanks to all ...I guess ...for the bad news. I've heard it's nearly impossible (five years!!) to take out all the roots, so I guess I'll just bite the bullet. Too late now to put Roundup on freshly-cut roots. Spent many hours 'tother day digging up what I could; now will cover up and pray. (not that Anybody listens to me Up There )