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Help, this climbing weed/plant is taking over!
mark.p.oliver
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I am trying my hardest to make a very bland wall very nice with climbers and tall birder plants. This year however everything is being strangled by an unknown climber that grows faster than I can cut it back! Any help/identification will be greatly received!!!;
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That is bindweed. Very difficult to dig out as each tiny bit of missed root makes a new plant. You can pull it off by hand but never put it in the compost heap or bin without leaving it out in the sun a few days to die back and dry out completely. Keep at it regularly and it will eventually weaken and die because the roots need the leaves to survive.
If you can unwind it from the plants you want to keep you can spray it with a systemic weedkiller which will be taken down to the roots and kill the whole plant. You may need two or three applications to kill it completely and you have to be patient as it takes 2 weeks to work each time.
Where you see new growth coming back, train it up a cane till big enough to spray.
You need to be careful not to get weedkiller on your treasures and you need 6 hours of sunshine and no rain for it to be absorbed. Products containing glyphosate will do the trick but do follow the instructions carefully about concentrations.
thank you!!! I'm very much an amateur and fingers are not the greenest, was enjoying my wall mission till this turned up!
thanks for your help, will get going on untangling everything, think the clematis may have to but cut back as it's so entwined!
thanks again
If you snap the bindweed stems at the base and just leave it, the stems and leaves will wilt where they are and can then be pulled off after a few days without sacrificing the clematis.