I find it very frustrating that if you try and unwind it from plants you can often damage little buds more than the bindweed, particularly if you're fighting with the tiny skinny stuff, it get around so tightly.
And it's a never-ending problem. It might get weaker but it's just as hard to get the little bits out.
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I'm lucky enough not to have bindweed (plenty of other candidates though!), so have no vested interest, but just out of curiosity, how are you hoping to use this information to help your research? Unless of course you are researching persistence in a cause when the odds are against you
I have been trying to dig out bindweed from a patch in my garden for over thirty years and it is still there so I have learned to live with it, not least because it is coming from next door. It is a real problem because it roots so deeply ( I have found it a good metre down), tangles itself up in other plants' roots, grows underneath walls, strangles everything it grows up, seeds if you let it flower, and grows from the tiniest bit of white root left behind, and there are usually many because it breaks up so easily.
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And it's a never-ending problem. It might get weaker but it's just as hard to get the little bits out.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.