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My neighbor's Asian Jasmine has encroached upon not only our yard but the yards of two other neighbors. I've tried 20% vinegar (twice) and Spectracide's Triple Strike (also twice) and neither is making a dent in this krap (and normally they both kill everything).
I don't blame the neighbor for planting it - it was planted by the previous owner who kept up with the maintenance in the back yard. But the "new" owners are older and don't maintain their property (other than to have someone mow and edge the lawn), and the jasmine has over-run their garden beds and has quickly migrated to three other properties. In the early spring, while they were on vacation (and with their permission), I got into their back yard and ripped about two lawn and leaf bags full of that stuff off the cedar fence, which barely scratched the surface of the problem, but at least I got the majority of it off the fence that's between our two properties. However, after 5 months, the stuff is once again encroaching on our property and my new garden beds - and that's even with a two-foot-wide pebble path along the fence as a buffer zone.
Also, I noticed this morning that it's coming into the yard from another neighbor's yard. This is stuff that I'm sure encroached on that neighbor's property (at the corner) and is now creeping under and between the cedar fence (where I don't have a buffer zone).
I'm tired of fighting this stuff. As far as I'm concerned this junk should be classified as an invasive species and added to the Texas Invasive Species list so that it can't be sold at the orange or blue "box" stores (or anywhere else!).
How do I get rid of it? (BTW, in the spring I also put up roofing flashing all along the fence to keep the krap from growing through the fence, but it climbed up their side of the fence and is growing through above the flashing!) I'd take a blow torch to it, but I don't think the neighbors would appreciate my burning down their fence! (I have medical issues now and no longer have the energy to go back into their yard and rip the krap out as I did in the spring.)
Any suggestions? Thanks!
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