I asked a similar Q several weeks ago, I'll bump up the thread it's titled - Help...marestail and other nasties...
Training up canes is one way of killing it, I used roundup on some a few days ago which had grown about 2ft. Ever so pleased with the result, the bindweed is already begining to go brown. I painted it on, there's a risk of killing other plants if you spray. Better to do it when rain isn;t forcast too...
bindweed - train it up a bamboo cane, then when it gets to about three foot tall carefully remove it from the cane and put it in a plastic bag with no holes - make sure its still connected to the roots - then add some (about an egg cup worth should do) of premixed roundup/glyphosate to the bag, make sure everything gets a good dose and tie the bag up, wait two weeks, cut the bindweed off at ground level and bin the bag/dead bindweed top. with it being in a bag you can do it in any weather and there is less collateral damage to other plants nearby.
Bindweed and I have become extremely intimate. So far bindweed 1 - 0!! I don't use any weedkiller, just keep pulling it up as it grows and gently teasing out the long white roots when I find them. I must admit I find it extremely satisfying when I loosen the soil and manage to pull up a long root (12" plus). There is certainly less growth this year than last, and I pull up any bit I see in growth at every opportunity. I appreciate this would not have any impact in a big garden (mine is quite small) but I am a great fan of wildlife and insects, so prefer to have a bit of bindweed than risk killing bees etc. Good luck with your endeavours, just so glad I only have a bindweed problem and not Japenese Knotweed - the 'Devil' plant
When you say paint the leaves, do you have to paint all of them or just a few? My plants and trees are literally covered with the nasty stuff. The big white trumpets look very pretty but they need to go!
MooDoo - the Netherlands or Dutch Parliament has just banned glyphosate due to the safety concerns. The Dutch aren't stupid - perhaps we should follow suit.
You can use a broadleaf weedkiller, butt they are persistent and nasty. Otherwise just pull it out. Gradually it will weaken. Or use glyphosate, avoiding the lawn, not easy.
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Hi, clare, welcome to the forum.
I asked a similar Q several weeks ago, I'll bump up the thread it's titled - Help...marestail and other nasties...
Training up canes is one way of killing it, I used roundup on some a few days ago which had grown about 2ft. Ever so pleased with the result, the bindweed is already begining to go brown. I painted it on, there's a risk of killing other plants if you spray. Better to do it when rain isn;t forcast too...
bindweed - train it up a bamboo cane, then when it gets to about three foot tall carefully remove it from the cane and put it in a plastic bag with no holes - make sure its still connected to the roots - then add some (about an egg cup worth should do) of premixed roundup/glyphosate to the bag, make sure everything gets a good dose and tie the bag up, wait two weeks, cut the bindweed off at ground level and bin the bag/dead bindweed top. with it being in a bag you can do it in any weather and there is less collateral damage to other plants nearby.
that should control the bindweed
Bindweed and I have become extremely intimate. So far bindweed 1 - 0!! I don't use any weedkiller, just keep pulling it up as it grows and gently teasing out the long white roots when I find them. I must admit I find it extremely satisfying when I loosen the soil and manage to pull up a long root (12" plus). There is certainly less growth this year than last, and I pull up any bit I see in growth at every opportunity. I appreciate this would not have any impact in a big garden (mine is quite small) but I am a great fan of wildlife and insects, so prefer to have a bit of bindweed than risk killing bees etc. Good luck with your endeavours, just so glad I only have a bindweed problem and not Japenese Knotweed - the 'Devil' plant
When you say paint the leaves, do you have to paint all of them or just a few? My plants and trees are literally covered with the nasty stuff. The big white trumpets look very pretty but they need to go!
You'll have to paint most of them. Imagine the extent of the root that goes with that lot.
Or you can do what the previous poster does
In the sticks near Peterborough
Definitely a cloche or a bag to put the bindweed in if you're going to spray it and giving it 'decoy' poles to grow up keeps it off the other plants.
That, and being bloody minded and perservering.
I only dig it up when it's physically in the way and then I just try to pull it back to where it deep roots, stuff it in a bag and spray from there.
As others have said, too often digging it up = propagation.
All that said, having just read that glyphosate is prob more dangerous than previously thought ( http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2015/mar/21/roundup-cancer-who-glyphosate- ) does anyone have any other suggestions for what else to treat it with?
I have bindweed growing in my lawn
What's best method of getting rid without
Damaging my lawn. This occurred when
Digging it out and reseeding must have
Spread it.
MooDoo - the Netherlands or Dutch Parliament has just banned glyphosate due to the safety concerns. The Dutch aren't stupid - perhaps we should follow suit.
You can use a broadleaf weedkiller, butt they are persistent and nasty. Otherwise just pull it out. Gradually it will weaken. Or use glyphosate, avoiding the lawn, not easy.
Im attempting the decoy cane trick.
Should i water them to speed up the growth up the cane?
They are inches from the back of my house where i am currently digging out to make way for a slabbed area.
Am i using the wrong method with me having no surpunding plants to protect? Could i just attack with chemicals?