controlling kosters curse

[terracore]

The kosters curse on our property is getting out of hand.  The goats and sheep don't like it and it's stems are machete resistant.

Anybody have control tips?

[eightfingers2.0]

I hit with Roundup. Problem is birds eat the berries and spread the seeds from other vacant lots. It’s an ongoing battle.

[kalianna]

I never knew that's what that terrible weed was called until I googled it. Yeah, nasty stuff. We had a bunch coming through the fence from our neighbor's weed-ridden yard. I cut off the tips with seeds and over time, the uluhe fern has crowded it out. Almost gone now.

[taropatch]

That one's not that hard to get rid of. If the trunk is 3/8" or less I hand pull. If its stubborn, I loosen the base at the soil with a few strikes from pick. Thicker ones you can lop at the 4-6" level and treat with your stump killer. I use Ortho Poison Ivy. Split open the little stump a bit with your hatchet to let the herbicide get in better.

[MarkP]

Stuff like that I have resigned myself to hand treating with no forseeable end in sight. If small I try to pull it, otherwise I use round-up, either on the leaves or on the cut stump.