I have a weed bush I deal with called buckthorn, and you can cut every branch down to the ground and that sucker is coming back in a week or two unless you get

I have a weed bush I deal with called buckthorn, and you can cut every branch down to the ground and that sucker is coming back in a week or two unless you get a stump grinder. This document from the Minnesota DNR expresses just how hard it is to kill it: https://files.dnr.state.mn.us/natural_resources/invasives/terrestrialplants/woodyplants/buckthorn_what_you_should_know.pdf https://files.dnr.state.mn.us/natural_resources/invasives/te... Specifically it suggests cutting it to the ground and then, if you don't want to use herbicide, to cover it with a black plastic for one to two years. And it says the seeds it drops remain viable for five.