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Bindweed! Can it be battled organically?

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  • wild edgeswild edges Posts: 10,497
    Well Tom seems to have disappeared without a trace anyway. He's probably still tangled up in bindweed :'(
    If you can keep your head, while those around you are losing theirs, you may not have grasped the seriousness of the situation.
  • LynLyn Posts: 23,190
    If he hasn’t cleared it from 2014 he must be buried in it by now.
    Gardening on the wild, windy west side of Dartmoor. 

  • Hostafan1Hostafan1 Posts: 34,887
    Note that Glyphosate/Roundup is now known to be a carcinogen (causes cancer) and to be persistent in the soil, not breaking down as the manufacturer (Monsanto) said it did.
    Can you provide evidence to confirm it is a carcinogen? I've never seen any which says more than " likely to be"
    Devon.
  • Lizzie27Lizzie27 Posts: 12,485
    I use glyphosate on bindweed by letting it grow a foot or so long, then shoving it all in a thin plastic bag and  spraying carefully inside the bag, tie the bag or just twist the neck and leave it to work or bury it. The weedkiller travels down to the roots (thus killing it in your neighbours site).  You may have to do this for a year or so but it t should work eventually.
    North East Somerset - Clay soil over limestone
  • I have nothing against oldposts or old threads. They can be informative too. So why the hegrudging and marginally nasty tone on this one?
  • But - why don't snails eat bindweed?
  • HelixHelix Posts: 631
    Has anyone else tried this method for getting rid of bindweed?  Pop a can over every shoot you see.... I find it slightly David Hockney, so doesn’t bug me that bits of the garden are covered in cans.  maybe next year I’ll paint them to look like frogs or something. 

    This is the second year and there’s definitely much, much less.




  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,128
    David Hockney??! ...

     Andy Warhol surely ?🤣 

    Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.





  • FireFire Posts: 19,081
    "Bindweed! Can it be battled organically?"

    No.
  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,128
    Fire said:
    "Bindweed! Can it be battled organically?"

    No.
    I disagree with you there @Fire 😊  ... it can be battled ..... and battled...... and battled ..... but who wants a re-run of the 100 Years War in their garden?😉 

    Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.





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