This is what I read in a gardening book ,a very early Readers Digest edition . I have kept it in reserve . It is for getting rid of bindweed . this is what they said : Dig a deepish Channel along the fence slot in something like thin sheet metal .Keep the soil away from this Channel . as each bit of bindweed starts comming through give it a spurt of weed killer . the weedkiller goes back to the roots and eventuly the weed is nomore .
Now as I say this was in an early edition but you could use an equivelant to metal sheeting and it does sound a good idea for such as bindweed. With the ivy you might get to know at a garden center. I find ,that cutting it off just encourages it .
Keep the forum informed - I have read only the first couple of pages here and you have had some good suggestions .
here is part of the ivy covered fence of next door.. behind it is the poor ash trees and an apple tree that is swapped by it..
it is driving me mad.. and it is onyl my bay hedge that is holding their fend up and our yew tree further up holding up their fircone tree.. have asked them several times to sort it out but nothing.
@cahrlie.. many thanks for that.. hard to believe there is a six foot high fence under that.. it goes all the way down to the side of the house so runs for about 42ft. and all looking like that.. i have even offered to go round and cut it at grown level their side but told htey would do it.. but not yet so far..
i dont mind it to a degree as the butterflies love it and we have had many more the last fews years i have let it grow.. but it is a swine to cut back as my plants are underneath and get damaged at times when doing it.
but i may try roughing up the leaves and using the glyphoste on them then.
I read about the problems with japanese knotweed. that's really scary!
problem with the bindweed is, though: i can't spray it, as it is on the neighbour's side, growing there every year more and more, as they do not remove it!
I think, I'll call the council, just to enquire, whether they are obliged to keep it away from my garden and if sth can be done about it.
apart from it, we might go the drastic route of building a wall there and remove the wood cladded fence!
The problem with spraying the bindweed is its relatively low concentration that doesn’t affect the entire root system on a large plant, therefore weakening it but not readily killing it.
By putting glyphosate solution in a clear container in the sun, the bindweed absorbs the solution as it photosynthesizes (there was an old test when people didn’t understand plants growing, they had plants in water in light and dark rooms, the plants in the light absorbed water) and this means you basically overdose the plant and it is incredibly effective!
Gardeningfantic - we had ivycovered fences like that all around our garden when we moved here two years ago next week! And it went up the ash trees and to the eaves of our house. Underneath the fences were rotten and part of one fell down when we had some heavy rain
we cut it down, filled heaven knows how many skips, dug the roots out by hand, had new fences erected, and this was the same place this summer
This is the same spot nearly two years later.
We didn't spray the ivy off - as I said we cut it down and dug it out. Now if a shoot appears I pull/dig/hack it out.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
I note the good advice to use the right concentration of the glyphosphate when treating bindweed, not too much or it won't make the roots and not too little or it wont do anything. However i've got ultra 3000 and cant see on the label what the concentation is supposed to be, even on the internet on their website i can't find out.
someone mentioned 2 percent maximum concentration as the maximum, does that refer to ultra 3000 or is that a more concentrated product.
sorry if i've missed something obvious on the label
Keeblatt - the neighbours replaced 'their' fence, we replaced the fence at the bottom and the other side of the garden, and had a retaining wall rebuilt because the ivy had taken all the moisture out of the bricks and mortar and they just crumbled.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
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This is what I read in a gardening book ,a very early Readers Digest edition . I have kept it in reserve . It is for getting rid of bindweed . this is what they said : Dig a deepish Channel along the fence slot in something like thin sheet metal .Keep the soil away from this Channel . as each bit of bindweed starts comming through give it a spurt of weed killer . the weedkiller goes back to the roots and eventuly the weed is nomore .
Now as I say this was in an early edition but you could use an equivelant to metal sheeting and it does sound a good idea for such as bindweed. With the ivy you might get to know at a garden center. I find ,that cutting it off just encourages it .
Keep the forum informed - I have read only the first couple of pages here and you have had some good suggestions .
here is part of the ivy covered fence of next door.. behind it is the poor ash trees and an apple tree that is swapped by it..
it is driving me mad.. and it is onyl my bay hedge that is holding their fend up and our yew tree further up holding up their fircone tree.. have asked them several times to sort it out but nothing.
will try that picture again so u can enlarge it better.
hope this is better
@cahrlie.. many thanks for that.. hard to believe there is a six foot high fence under that.. it goes all the way down to the side of the house so runs for about 42ft. and all looking like that.. i have even offered to go round and cut it at grown level their side but told htey would do it.. but not yet so far..
i dont mind it to a degree as the butterflies love it and we have had many more the last fews years i have let it grow.. but it is a swine to cut back as my plants are underneath and get damaged at times when doing it.
but i may try roughing up the leaves and using the glyphoste on them then.
I read about the problems with japanese knotweed. that's really scary!
problem with the bindweed is, though: i can't spray it, as it is on the neighbour's side, growing there every year more and more, as they do not remove it!
I think, I'll call the council, just to enquire, whether they are obliged to keep it away from my garden and if sth can be done about it.
apart from it, we might go the drastic route of building a wall there and remove the wood cladded fence!
i hope it is not going to be too expensive!
The problem with spraying the bindweed is its relatively low concentration that doesn’t affect the entire root system on a large plant, therefore weakening it but not readily killing it.
By putting glyphosate solution in a clear container in the sun, the bindweed absorbs the solution as it photosynthesizes (there was an old test when people didn’t understand plants growing, they had plants in water in light and dark rooms, the plants in the light absorbed water) and this means you basically overdose the plant and it is incredibly effective!
Gardeningfantic - we had ivycovered fences like that all around our garden when we moved here two years ago next week! And it went up the ash trees and to the eaves of our house. Underneath the fences were rotten and part of one fell down when we had some heavy rain
we cut it down, filled heaven knows how many skips, dug the roots out by hand, had new fences erected, and this was the same place this summer
This is the same spot nearly two years later.
We didn't spray the ivy off - as I said we cut it down and dug it out. Now if a shoot appears I pull/dig/hack it out.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
wow, what a transformation!
did you also put a new fence?
can't wait to get a quote from our builder for the wall!
then the roots and plant cannot come from underneath and between the fence anymore!
at the end where the fence ajoins, I will take great care nothing starts to come over in the first place!
I note the good advice to use the right concentration of the glyphosphate when treating bindweed, not too much or it won't make the roots and not too little or it wont do anything. However i've got ultra 3000 and cant see on the label what the concentation is supposed to be, even on the internet on their website i can't find out.
someone mentioned 2 percent maximum concentration as the maximum, does that refer to ultra 3000 or is that a more concentrated product.
sorry if i've missed something obvious on the label
ta dave.
Keeblatt - the neighbours replaced 'their' fence, we replaced the fence at the bottom and the other side of the garden, and had a retaining wall rebuilt because the ivy had taken all the moisture out of the bricks and mortar and they just crumbled.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.