The dreaded bindweed
paul.hedge
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Hello guys,
I am totally new to this forum and inexperienced when it comes to gardening.I have a massive bindweed problem at my late uncles house.The two houses either side both have full length garden patios,but the bindweed problem I am experiencing is horrendous.I am guessing from reading other posts on here that I have actually made the problem worse myself by trying to cut the weed back and clear the garden as much as possible.The only reason I did this is because the weeds are just consuming the garden and I am severely limited for time on the occasions I can go and try to tidy up.My main questions (if anyone can help) are:
How can I control the bindweed now I may have helped it spread?
Could it possibly be coming from either side,but only sprouting in my garden as the houses other side (should) have membranes if they have patio gardens?
I have been trying to use roundup,does it work on weeds as well as the leaves if you have cut the weed back to ground level?
Many Thanks.
Paul
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We had the white flowered bindweed all over the garden and up to the bedroom windows when we bought our last house. We beat it.
It does need to have leaves in order for the spray to work, but don't worry
it'll soon grow some more.
When it's growing strongly and has plenty of young leaves spray with a glyphosate weedkiller and then leave it until the plants have turned brown and withered. This may take several weeks. Don't be disheartened and don't try to pull them up until they have completely died. The glyphosate needs plenty of time to travel back into the plant and kill every bit of root.
If you pull it up before that has happened every tiny bit of root left behind will regrow and you'll have to start again.
You will get some regrowth which you must spray again as before.
We moved to that house about this time of year and by the end of the summer we'd got it beaten by spraying three times if I remember correctly, and by the winter we were able to dig the garden ready to plant in the spring.
It may be spreading in from surrounding areas ... I used to check the boundaries through the summer each year and give any invading leaves a dose of spray ... being careful not to let any spray drift onto precious plants by masking with sheets of cardboard.
Good luck. Let us know you get on.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
I use Rosate36 (glyphosphate) for really tough weeds like bindweed.
It's the same chemical as Roundup, but much stronger. It even killed ivy after 3 applications.
Just be very careful not to get any on other plants or they'll be dead too
Billericay - Essex
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Wisdom is not putting it in a fruit salad.
I've just untangled a bunch from my problem corner. I shall splat regrowth with topical glyphosate!
Thanks Chloe,
When you say regular,how often do you recommend?
I think CK means 'regular' as in the American vernacular ... 'ordinary' 'bog standard' etc. Don't think she's referring to regularity as in timed intervals.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
We have a miniature form of bindweed in this new garden. It's all through the grass and deep under the 3 flower beds we've cleaned up so far and was all over the potager to be that used to be donkey paddock along with other resistant nasties which I have finally sprayed with brushwood killer after 3 goes with glyphosate.
Can't spray in the beds or grass so its just a case of constant mowing and weeding till it gives up. In your case, if you can encourage teh stems up canes and then brush or spray them with a systemic weedkiller based on glyphosate it should eventually give up but do leave it time to work - at least 2 weeks - as any bits of root that aren't affected will just regrow new plants.
In my last garden, which had very full beds of perennials and shrubs, I found it was best to pull off any new growth at ground level and leave it to dry out on the grass or a path for a few days before it went anywhere near a compost heap but one bed had to be completely emptied, the plant roots cleaned and quarantined and then the bed forked over to remove as many roots as possible. Then we waited 3 months for regrowth and sprayed it when it was big enough. That worked well but it does need patience.
We had the white flowered bindweed all over the garden and up to the bedroom windows when we bought our last house. We beat it.
It does need to have leaves in order for the spray to work, but don't worry
it'll soon grow some more.
When it's growing strongly and has plenty of young leaves spray with a glyphosate weedkiller and then leave it until the plants have turned brown and withered. This may take several weeks. Don't be disheartened and don't try to pull them up until they have completely died. The glyphosate needs plenty of time to travel back into the plant and kill every bit of root.
If you pull it up before that has happened every tiny bit of root left behind will regrow and you'll have to start again.
You will get some regrowth which you must spray again as before.
We moved to that house about this time of year and by the end of the summer we'd got it beaten by spraying three times if I remember correctly, and by the winter we were able to dig the garden ready to plant in the spring.
It may be spreading in from surrounding areas ... I used to check the boundaries through the summer each year and give any invading leaves a dose of spray ... being careful not to let any spray drift onto precious plants by masking with sheets of cardboard.
Good luck. Let us know you get on.
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Oh No
I was coming to ask the same thing as I have been pulling ours out but it keeps growing! I don't know if I can safely spray the beds - we had a glut of bluebells and the beds are full of sedum and euonymous - how on earth can I apply the roundup?
Topical gel!
Petrificous - you can't apply it in a bed unless you buy an expensive gel form and paint it on. Try twining it up canes then, when you have enough, put it in bin bag and spray with glyphosate or other systemic weedkiller. They are indiscriminate and will kill anything green that they landon so care is needed.