I have decided to use a weed killer on bindweed on my allotment paths
Unfortunately digging it out of the beds has had some limited success but it looks like targeted weed killer spray is the only solution , having read all the comments
Bindweed - the bane of my life! It has come from next door under the fence all the 30 years we've lived here, and I can't eradicate it. The only saving grace is that it hasn't spread out of its patch near this fence. About 5 years ago, I went the whole hog, and dug out everything in the affected area including shrubs as I knew it was entangled in the roots. Soil was sieved, so I knew what was left was weed-free. I also remember digging down at the fence as much as I could, and putting in a barrier of old concrete blocks below fence level.
Still, within a year I had the stuff back, as prodigious as before, in 20+ places, strangling shrubs and breaking my heart. Other than unentangling it from shrubs, and cutting it down a foot or so above ground level, I haven't had the resolve to have another stab at it. I have heard people say to put this physical barrier in to stop it invading, but my experience has been that the weed will burrow beneath any barrier I put in, so if I can't stop it invading what's the point in really digging it out?
I have the same problem. It grows out from under old stone walls in my garden. I haven't had time to shove it in bottles to spray and usually it's too wrapped around plants by the time I see it. I just need to go on holiday for 2 weeks and it's out of control. I have over an acre, full of herbaceous borders and a big veggie garden. It's in the lawns as well. I weedspray the main flower garden lawn, would cost a fortune to do all of it. When it comes out of the paving stones I spray it, in 2 or 3 weeks it looks dead then new leaves appear.
Dordogne and Norfolk. Clay in Dordogne, sandy in Norfolk.
Bind weed - just pulling out regularly seems to have weakend the plant - still comes up occaisionally but only because the allotments surrounding me do not control theirs (I think). It's mares tail & buttercups that are the evil weeds for me, they are getting everywhere - very distressing - any advise fellow gardeners?
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I have decided to use a weed killer on bindweed on my allotment paths
Unfortunately digging it out of the beds has had some limited success but it looks like targeted weed killer spray is the only solution , having read all the comments
wondered if anybody had an organic solution ?
Bindweed - the bane of my life! It has come from next door under the fence all the 30 years we've lived here, and I can't eradicate it. The only saving grace is that it hasn't spread out of its patch near this fence. About 5 years ago, I went the whole hog, and dug out everything in the affected area including shrubs as I knew it was entangled in the roots. Soil was sieved, so I knew what was left was weed-free. I also remember digging down at the fence as much as I could, and putting in a barrier of old concrete blocks below fence level.
Still, within a year I had the stuff back, as prodigious as before, in 20+ places, strangling shrubs and breaking my heart. Other than unentangling it from shrubs, and cutting it down a foot or so above ground level, I haven't had the resolve to have another stab at it. I have heard people say to put this physical barrier in to stop it invading, but my experience has been that the weed will burrow beneath any barrier I put in, so if I can't stop it invading what's the point in really digging it out?
I have the same problem. It grows out from under old stone walls in my garden. I haven't had time to shove it in bottles to spray and usually it's too wrapped around plants by the time I see it. I just need to go on holiday for 2 weeks and it's out of control. I have over an acre, full of herbaceous borders and a big veggie garden. It's in the lawns as well. I weedspray the main flower garden lawn, would cost a fortune to do all of it. When it comes out of the paving stones I spray it, in 2 or 3 weeks it looks dead then new leaves appear.
Bind weed - just pulling out regularly seems to have weakend the plant - still comes up occaisionally but only because the allotments surrounding me do not control theirs (I think). It's mares tail & buttercups that are the evil weeds for me, they are getting everywhere - very distressing - any advise fellow gardeners?
Might be worth a try
http://www.pfaf.org/user/Plant.aspx?LatinName=Tagetes+minuta
Thank you addict, I will try this next season and if it doesn't help I will have lovely flowers in my garden!