vines creeping in from neighbors

[lust2hart]

I would like to plant wildflowers along our back fence, which is chain link. My plan is to till up a strip about 18" wide, running along the entire fenceline. 

The problem is that my backyard neighbors have this groundcover vine stuff that makes its way - not really into our yard, but up into our fence. Although I imagine if I just let it do its thing, it would eventually get into our yard. So I want to clear it all out, and I'm digging out as many roots as I can, and then will till which will hopefully break up anything else below the surface on our side. But is there anything I can do to prevent (or at least slow) the creeping? 

[simpsongal]

Ugh, the previous owners of our home planted ivy and wisteria and it's IMPOSSIBLE to eradicate. I'm your neighbors Grass typically serves an effective barrier but you're wise to think of this before creating a bed there.

I think there are barriers that you tap into the soil to keep certain creeping things at bay. A generic physical barrier can also help (e.g., bricks or landscape wood), but creeping things will eventually creep over (those barriers just give you time to pull before the creepers take root on your side). E.g., there's one for bamboo.

[mrsukyankee]

I am slowly trying to get rid of the ivy that our next door neighbour loves. It has creeped over and under our wood fence. And it will be an ongoing issue unless they deal with it on their side. We have a wisteria plant that was put in by someone prior to use buying this house and trying to deal with that must be a pain for our neighbours because I'm not a huge fan of it myself (but because it's quite old, I'm keeping it going, though I may cut it back a lot in the winter).

So, for you, I'd say, it's going to be a big ol' pain the butt to deal with it over time. Commiserations.

[candreco]

Ugh, we had a HUGE ivy bed removed from our yard, and one immediate neighbor has also spent a lot of time fighting ivy in his yard. But the house that backs up to ours and the other next door neighbor still have a ton of it, so it takes regular pulling of ivy and crap off of our fence and out of the ground along it to keep it from creeping back. Super annoying but I haven't found another solution.

[Deleted]

I'm not help. But this reminds me of a rental house that I had years, and years ago. Like 15 years ago. I planted ivy in the front bed and trained it to grow up the trellis that was around the base of the porch. The landlord has pulled it out many times since then, and the last time I drove by (my son actually lives on that street now) the ivy was back. Whoops.