Vines and Climbers: Virginia Creeper: how to clean up, 0 by mommydi

mommydi wrote:
I have an old Virginia Creeper along the chainlink fence in our back yard that has become accumulated with dead vines, trash, leaves, and dirt. We've tried pulling the dead vines out but what looks dead isn't always! It's getting so tangled that when we try to find the new growth on the sidewalk side so we can toss it over to the yard side (for pedestrians, moms with strollers, seniors safety, etc.), we can't hardly disentangle them without breaking them off. Does anybody know of a method that works for them? (I thought about just throwing a match to let the dead stuff burn and the new stuff would be green enough to survive but my husband didn't think that would be a good idea!)