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Bindweed
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Bindweed. Our garden is rampant with it, it's a nightmare to try and plant anything as there's so many roots under the soil. at the moment we aren't too bad as we've removed most of it and as it's getting colder we shouldn't see anymore this year. But. come next year it will be back again. the only place it hasn't grown is where the soil has been smothered with dry autumn leaves (a natural occurrence not our purposeful doing).
does anyone have a tried and tested method of removing it? Besides smothering the ground, although i'm tempted to purchase some bark to smother the area over the winter.
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When we moved into our last place there was bindweed all over the garden and as high as the bedroom windowsills. We sprayed with glyiphosate (Roundup) and waited until it was all brown and dead before pulling it up. We then waited for more shoots and sprayed and waited again. We did that for the whole summer. By the autumn the garden was free of bindweed and we were able to lay paving, dig our garden and create the beds. All we had to do in the folowing years was to keep our eyes open for any bindweed shoots sneaking under the fence from next door and then we'd either paint on some glyphosate or spray it after masking off our precious plants.
It's too late to treat your bindweed this year - wait until it starts to grow next year and then zap it and keep zappig it. You will win if you are methodical.
Good luck
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
As above. It took me four years, but most has gone. It'd been growing for at least 45 years, so the roots were extensive.
Regarding glyphosate, bramble survives being sprayed!