Hi Fishy65 I'd noticed your pic of handsome Robbie before. They are brilliant little dogs aren't they, so much character. My Lily is 9 now but still like a pup with lots of energy. She's also a passionate gardener, loves joining in when ever I'm digging and weeding. She doesn't half get in the way but I love her too much to get annoyed at her.
When we bought our last house we had rampant bindweed up to the first floor windows and all over the garden.
We pulled the bindweed down from the walls and fences, but didn't pull the roots up - we then walked over the leaves to bruise them and then sprayed thoroughly with a weedkiller containing glyphosate. We then left the whole area untouched until all the bindweed had gone brown. This took several weeks. This showed that the glyphosate had been drawn back into the roots and killed them too. The above was done in mid summer when the bindweed was in active growth.
Only then did we pull it up and dig the garden.
While we still had to spray the occasional shoot that came in from next door, we had no problems with bindweed in our garden
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
I know the feeling , have tried it all .... as will all gardeners , I unwind the weed from its support plant and wind it round my hand , push into a small plastic bag and spray the glysophate into the bag , which can easily be hidden in the border / buried under mulch.
Hi Lily, the picture there is Scampy who we lost in March 2012. He is buried in the garden where he can still be near us. I'll have to post a pic of Robbie
Lily sounds lovely and yes they are little dogs with huge personalities. Robbie tends to think he's God's gift lol.
I haven't yet found a systemic weedkiller that is friendly to bees, butterflies and other pollinators. Bindweed is a nightmare in my garden, seemingly to be coming from a neighbours overgrown and neglected garden. If you know of a pollinator friendly (and pet friendly) weedkiller please let us all know on here. Thanks.
I'm trying out the new, very expensive, gel I bought, £9 for a tiny pot.I've tried eveything else. Sometimes I wonder if the companies that sell these remedies are secretly sending weed seeds to our gardens to keep us buying.
The bindweed came from my neighbours garden, but there is nothing I can do about it. They just cut the grass and that's it, no borders or plants for them to worry about, just a trampoline and a pool in summer.
Never thought of getting the bind weed to grow up a stick n then treating it...I like so many others have it coming thru from a neighbour...my real problem is an ever increasing patch of ground elder which is intertwined w neighbours silver birch tree so I cannot dig it out. It is now invading our lawn too. Any ideas pls?
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When we bought our last house we had rampant bindweed up to the first floor windows and all over the garden.
We pulled the bindweed down from the walls and fences, but didn't pull the roots up - we then walked over the leaves to bruise them and then sprayed thoroughly with a weedkiller containing glyphosate. We then left the whole area untouched until all the bindweed had gone brown. This took several weeks. This showed that the glyphosate had been drawn back into the roots and killed them too. The above was done in mid summer when the bindweed was in active growth.
Only then did we pull it up and dig the garden.
While we still had to spray the occasional shoot that came in from next door, we had no problems with bindweed in our garden
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Lily sounds lovely and yes they are little dogs with huge personalities. Robbie tends to think he's God's gift lol.
Robbie
I'm trying out the new, very expensive, gel I bought, £9 for a tiny pot.I've tried eveything else. Sometimes I wonder if the companies that sell these remedies are secretly sending weed seeds to our gardens to keep us buying.
The bindweed came from my neighbours garden, but there is nothing I can do about it. They just cut the grass and that's it, no borders or plants for them to worry about, just a trampoline and a pool in summer.