How do I kill a fuschia bush in an environmentally friendly way?

[BrandyandGinger]

I want to get rid a fuschia bush that's growing by a wall. I won't be able to dig it out but I don't want to use Roundup or anything nasty. Does anyone know any tricks for doing it? I've already pruned it to the ground, but it could be two foot tall again in a week.

Could you put a paving slab / big rock over where you have cut it to the ground?

There’s a thing for killing a tree stump by driving a copper nail into it, that might work

You could use vinegar or compost accelerator ammonium sulfamate. Neither are completely benign but they don’t persist in the local water and soil. Or you could pay someone to dig it out and keep digging it out as it regenerates and eventually it will get tired and give up.

Just cut it back a few times to the ground. What's the bother with it?

Why can't you dig it out? Dig down, cut roots, dig more, cut more, repeat as necessary. Or pay someone to do it for you.

Cutting it back to the ground only encourages it! There a pretty stone wall behind it and rose bushes beside it but it just goes wild and covers everything.
I have them growing in the ditch around the house too, I just leave them to their own devices.
I might drive a copper nail into it, douse it in vinegar, cover it and say a witches incantation over it.

It's very deeply rooted and by a wall so I haven't been able to dig it out.
Having spare cash to pay someone to do stuff for me is the dream, but not in this year's budget, unfortunately.

Give it to me to look after and tell me it's impossible to kill.
Deader than a bloody doornail.

I killed mine by never pruning for 5 years and then I just pulled it out and it's never come back

I killed one by accidentally over feeding it. It was a quick death.

Cut it to the ground, then dig out a hole of soil all around it as deep as you can. Then cut it off as low underground as you can. Every time you see anything sprouting, cut it off immediately. It can't keep living if it can't make energy from leaves. Do it at least weekly for long enough and it will give up the ghost.

I have a very strong teen here but he broke my shovel trying to dig out a sycamore tree wrapped in a willow that self seeded in a flower bed. I don't want to buy another shovel.
We got the willow and sycamore out of the ground eventually and separated them and they're doing well in the wild bit at the back of my garden.

Copper nail should definitely do it.

I've killed off several self-seeded willow trees (the annoying, smothering kind, not the beautiful weeping kind) and a buddliah (sp?) using copper nails. You might need a few but it doesn't take long.

I’d offer it on you local FB page to anyone who’s happy to come and dig it out, I bet someone would happily come and get it.

I know I'm going to sound like a pedantic old fool here, but a shovel is for moving something e.g. coal. You need a spade for digging. Or even better for getting a robust plant you don't want out - a mattock.

I have a decent quality pickaxe, I think that's the same as a mattock. It's the wall that's causing me issues as much as the deep roots.

Let me look after it for a short while. It will soon die.

Fuchsias are beautiful - why not just leave it be?

Are you my neighbour? She keeps trying to kill our joint fuchsia, but it only seems to encourage it. I don't even like the damn thing, but the bees do, so I feel too guilty to try murder it from my side.

Two feet in a week? What kind of mutant fuchsia is this?

Are you sure you don't mean buddleia?

I'm not your neighbour but i feel her pain. There were even two baby fuschia plants rooted in the wall behind the my plant. The fuschia in the ditch are healthy enough but the one at the wall is insane. I've never seen anything else grow so fast. It gets very leggy too, not much flowers.

I'm 100% sure it's a fuschia and I don't know what kind of mutant strain it is. I'm obviously exaggerating saying two feet in a week but last year I pruned it to the ground and it was six to seven feet high when I pruned it today. I wish I had taken a photo first.

I've never had Fuschia's that grow that fast!

Sorry to question you but are you sure it is y this as I have a two and they grow like the clappers!

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I understand why you're asking, it shouldn't grow that fast. It must be a combination of the soil under the wall and the shelter. The rose bushes either side of it don't get any tlc except a bit of pruning but produce beautiful big blooms but the fuschia explodes and covers them. I'm hoping that if I can remove the fuschia I can put a third rose bush there and it will look much nicer.

Just keep cutting it back, seems much the easiest option.