Keep the grass mowed, Batana. I had some in my lawn but, having mown it down regularly, there's no sign of it, now.
I put some in a large pot and grow it up a trellis every year, because the flowers are lovely. You have to watch the roots trying to escape from the bottom, though!
I had a real problem with them two years ago. I still get bindweed but I must say I am winning the war bigtime.
What I do is let the weed grow so that there is about 18 inches or so for each runner. I then gather them up and fill the bottom of an empty pop/cordial plastic bottle minus the top and cap. Carefully fill the plastic container with as much weed and then fill with a strong weed killer glyphosate.just leave and allow the weed killer to do its job.
Weedkiller in my experience wont eradicate it and as my ol'dad used to say, "theres no short cut to a lasting and satisfacory job" so just keep going at it, digging it up! We inherited an infested garden last year, and you really cant leave an inch of root as it will just re-appear, You know it when you have a piece of root as when you snap it and sniff it, it really smells foul!
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What are you spraying bindweed with?
What can you do when it is growing up thro' the grass in your lawn?
Keep the grass mowed, Batana. I had some in my lawn but, having mown it down regularly, there's no sign of it, now.
I put some in a large pot and grow it up a trellis every year, because the flowers are lovely. You have to watch the roots trying to escape from the bottom, though!
What I do is let the weed grow so that there is about 18 inches or so for each runner. I then gather them up and fill the bottom of an empty pop/cordial plastic bottle minus the top and cap. Carefully fill the plastic container with as much weed and then fill with a strong weed killer glyphosate.just leave and allow the weed killer to do its job.
Best wishes
Steve Nr Chester
Aceria malherbae (Eriophyidae) mite as a biocontrol?
I always wanted to try an experiment on bind weed using a syringe with weed killer and injecting it into bind weed to see the results
You'd need a very fine needle
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.