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Bindweed in lounge
Pickers1982
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I have bindweed growing from a whole under floor level behind my skirting. As it's indoors and I have a young child can any one recommend a safe killer to use that will get the roots. Just don't want anything toxic remaining round to be inhaled but also want to make sure it goes
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There's probably some outside as well, could you use the weedkiller there?
In the sticks near Peterborough
That brings back memories - when I was a child living in a very old and run-down farmhouse we had Ground Elder, roses and Kerria japonica coming through the skirting board into the drawing room!!!
I would get some weedkiller gel containing glyphosate and apply it to the leaves. As soon as it dries it will be harmless to humans and animals. Leave it until the leaves are brown and dead - it may take a while - that will give time for the active ingredient to have travelled down the stems to kill the roots. Then you can pull it up.
Hope that's helpful
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
The bindweed had gone up within the timber framed walls and into the roof in our last house
In the sticks near Peterborough