You've sent me on a nostalgia trip, to my teens, when I would be stylish, or die in the attempt. My hair was fine and floppy and wouldn't hold a set. I had it permed once, in desperation, and it was dead straight again inside a week. There was a shampoo with beer in it, called Linco-lin, which promised to add body to limp hair, and it did seem to help. It was thick and creamy and salmon pink, and it smelled good. The beauty columnists used to advise limp-haired lovelies to add the dregs from a bottle of beer to the final rinse.
I have been tempted all week to moan about bindweed and the fact that, for three years, I have dug and dug and dug every little root piece and still it is there, reaching for the skies. I gave up a month ago.... and discovered this evening that it is the only thing holding many of my perennials upright.
I must do *something*. The digging clearly isn't working and it's killing me (digging, not the bindweed) and I think its roots are entwined with plant roots and I'm not digging everything up...
There's an awful lot of it...do you "paint" it on the leaves?
I let it grow up canes , then you can either use the gel on it, or mix it up in a bucket, put on a pair of rubber gloves, then cheap cotton gloves on top, dip your hands CAREFULLY into the bucket, squeeze the excess from the gloves and just squish the foliage with the liquid still in the gloves. If that makes sense?
... or leave the bindweed tendrils in the bucket. Taking lost of various care with bucket, self and surrounding vegetation. Use the gel by smearing it on the back of the leaves works for me. The back of the leaf seems to work better than the front. It takes mine 1-2 months to kill the plants right back.
@josusa47 I remember Linco-lin. It did smell nice but it was a b####r to get out if the bottle. Aquamanda(brown glass bottle) and Kiku (yellow bottle) and Avon' s Topaz (sickly cream perfume that smelt sophisticated to a 16 year old.) were favourites too. I used to cake my hair in henna and then wrap it in plastic and then heat it with the drier. It made your hair thick and glossy but it makes grey hair pink so I had to stop eventually. Do you remember the ladies with blue or pink rinses that would complain about the punks' rainbow hair?
I must do *something*. The digging clearly isn't working and it's killing me (digging, not the bindweed) and I think its roots are entwined with plant roots and I'm not digging everything up...
There's an awful lot of it...do you "paint" it on the leaves?
I purchase it in the large bottle with the battery sprayer wand attachment thing.. and that only puts out a tiny 'soaker'-like spray.. it's fairly easy to target bindweed among other plants.. especially if you've grown it up a cane, etc. I also tear out as much as I can one week, and wait for the new growth to appear.. spraying that, as it's easier hidden at the base of more established plants. Less risk on it touching desired plant foliage. Good luck.
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There's an awful lot of it...do you "paint" it on the leaves?
If that makes sense?
Aquamanda(brown glass bottle) and Kiku (yellow bottle) and Avon' s Topaz (sickly cream perfume that smelt sophisticated to a 16 year old.) were favourites too.
I used to cake my hair in henna and then wrap it in plastic and then heat it with the drier.
It made your hair thick and glossy but it makes grey hair pink so I had to stop eventually.
Do you remember the ladies with blue or pink rinses that would complain about the punks' rainbow hair?