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Plant identification
Paul506
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I've been pulling this stuff out of my garden since we moved in three years ago. It's coming from the garden at the back of the house but seems to grow constantly. Could it be Japanese Knot Weed? If it is, I understand that this could be a major problem but if it's coming in to our garden from a neighbour, who is responsible for getting rid of it?
Any advice welcome
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not JK, just good old fashioned bindweed.
Cool - many thanks. I'll just keep pulling it out then ?
Glyphosate will deal with it ... spray and leave until it goes brown. It may need several applications but when we bought our last house the back garden had bindweed up to the bedroom windows ... we moved in during July, treated it immediately, waited until it died down and dug the garden over. In the spring we treated some regrowth in exactly the same way and by late spring we were able to plant our garden.
It still tried to come in from next door, but we used the Round Up glyphosate gel to dab on that when it appeared and that stopped it.
Just keep on top of it and it'll be fine.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
you'll be pulling it out forever I'm afraid.
If you don't mind chemicals, glyphosate based weedkiller works wonders on it. A wee bit later perhaps this season as it needs " to be in active growth" .
If you don't want to use chemicals, you need to get every single scrap of root dug out as even the tiniest bit will regrow.
Your garden , your choice.
I have tried the none chemical approach, digging out roots, raking the soil week after week to help me to remove the broken roots by hand, but this hasn't worked for me. I HATE chemicals, and really don't want to use them in my garden, but feel I may have to resort to this.
If you just have a random one or two bindweed plants, you may be successful without using chemicals Paul, and I would certainly try this natural approach first. But as Hosta says, the choice is yours.
I don't like using chemicals either ... but as I said above, I used glyphosate to deal with the bindweed. There's a time and a place ... etc etc etc
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.