If at your dacha everything hops braided, and you want to know how to remove it from the garden plot, the information in this article will help get rid of annoying bushes.
Hop: friend or foe?
Climbing plants they usually perform decorative functions on the garden plot: they create a hedge, arches and gazebos are woven around, cover unsightly walls. All this can be done with unpretentious hops. In nature, there are two types of this vine: Japanese hops and common hops. And in order for the hops to please the eye, and not to become a disaster of your site, you need to choose the right place not only, but also the look of this climbing plant.
Clematis, actinidia, climbing rose, wisteria, stalked hydrangea, girlish grapes, as well as hops, are climbers that are often used to decorate the summer cottage.If you planted Japanese hops on the site, then you will have no problems. This plant - the same age. The value of this vine is in the rapid growth of interlacing lashes with a large number of foliage. In the autumn she dies off, and it remains only to remove the leaves in the compost. Therefore, knowledgeable gardeners prefer this particular type of hops.
If you plant ordinary hops and allow it to grow, as in the wild, then it will become the enemy of everything that grows on the site. This is a perennial liana, reaching 17 m in length. Propagated by seeds (female species), cuttings and roots (especially male species). Having planted this look, you then with difficulty will be able to remove it from the site. And quite possibly, you will begin to think about how you can get rid of such a plant as hops, forever.
Important! Hop braids the plant not only from above, but also underground, entangling its underground part with its powerful root.
Rules of control: how to cut hops
To hops become the decoration of the site, and not a problem, you must first hold spring pruning: remove old shoots by cutting them off the ground. The leaves bloomed - it's time to do pruning. The plant should be thinned, leaving a couple of strong shoots that will give up to 12 m of lianas. If pruning is not done, the plant grows and grows to a height of 5 m. Hops in the warm season for a week gives a gain of 1 m. Vertically it grows faster, so you can control the growth by tying shoots horizontally. Creepers must be located within the area they decorate. 
Hop removal
Like all creepers, he loves to trail, and garden plants can die under the onslaught of this aggressor. Many gardeners after planting hops as a decor on the site spend a lot of strength, struggling with this cheerful plant.
Did you know? Hops are grown from the VIII century. Today, it is present in a large number of medicinal preparations as a tonic additive.
With a shovel
To get rid of hops in the garden will help ordinary shovel. If possible, uprooting should be carried out to the maximum depth, removing the main root and not ignoring the subordinate. The procedure must be carried out more than once, this in turn will lead to the weakening of the plant and subsequently to its complete disappearance from the site. This method is the most humane for the soil. 
We use drugs
If in the territory where this liana grows, nothing else grows, then to get rid of it you can buy herbicides of continuous action in garden stores with detailed instructions for use. There are three ways to use drugs:
- spray the drug throughout the aerial parts of the plant;
- Pour the substance under the root;
- introduce herbicide directly into the root itself.
Important! Experienced gardeners know that you can get rid of weeds with the help of "sideratov". These include: buckwheat, clover, peas, beans and oats. Such plants effectively inhibit the growth of weeds and at the same time saturate the soil with organic matter.
Salty method
How else can you get rid of the bothered plant hops? Everyone knows that nothing grows on salty land. Therefore you should use ordinary salt:
- sprinkle the earth with a continuous layer of salt with a thickness of at least 1 cm;
- inject the saline directly into the root system and into the thickened stems.
Read about the benefits and dangers of hops for humans.
Fertilizer oversupply
Everyone knows that an excess of fertilizer can cause great harm to plants. Experienced gardeners suggest how to remove common hops from the garden forever:
- when a large amount of fresh manure or mullein is introduced under the root, the plant begins to wither before his eyes;
- an excess of nitrate also acts detrimentally (but in small quantities, on the contrary, contributes to the growth of vines).
Root freezing
When all the methods of struggle have been tried, but the problem has not been solved, the thought of how to get rid of the hops in the garden does not leave the gardener. The method of using the freezing of roots arose by chance, after the uprooting of the roots. The pit must be left dug up and filled with water in the winter. Formed a block of ice, which will contribute to the freezing of the remaining part of the roots.
Did you know? Hops belongs to the hemp family. Its stems and leaves are able to absorb of water heavy metal ions (1 g of hop biomass absorbs 74.2 mg of lead).
Light restriction
A sure, but slow way to leave a plot without a bothered hop is to limit the access of light by closing the plant with slate, opaque sheets, or other materials at hand.
As we see, to cope with the overgrown vines, you need to put a lot of time and effort. But if you want hops to look beautiful on your garden plot, you just need to in time to do sanitary pruning and garter lashes.
