Bindweed!

[royal*happiness]

Can anyone recommend what is the best way to get rid of bindweed out of my garden.
I'm out daily pulling the dreadful stuff up, can't use weedkiller as the bindweed is growing in between my flowers and vegetable plants. As quick as I pull it up it comes back twice as much.
Thanks in advance.
Steve 🙂

[**towery**]

so  a flame thrower is out then

since you wont/cant use  sprays maybe one of those killers that you painr onto the leaves - if they still make them

or its a skinny brainy youth that understands how to weed it out of growing plants without disturbing more than necessary

[dairyview123]

Roundup weedkiller gel

Painstaking but well worth it, we did 100mtrs of garden with this as it was alive with bindweed, paint a leaf and it takes it down to the root killing that and it works!

[royal*happiness]

Thank you both 🙂 

[cookiecookuk]

there is a new weed killer looks a bit like pritt stick so can do individual leaves .(other glue sticks are available.):-D it would not take many leaves to kill the plant.

[royal*happiness]

Thank you cookiecookuk, will have a look for that product, you wouldn't know who makes it would you?

[ilove2patch]

Remember every bit of broken root makes another plant so as you are pulling it out & leaving bits of root they will make new plants. Try & remove as many of the root bits as possible.

[cookiecookuk]

can not remember which make it is but its new out so most garden centers should stock it.the other tip we used years ago for horse hair in the garden is get something like round up that kills the roots then mix up some wall paper paste and then use paint brush to brush the leaves same as pritt stick but probably cheaper.:-)

[royal*happiness]

Thank you all for your help and advice 🙂

[Anonymous]

Encourage it to grow up a cane so it's well above your flowers etc. Once well clear, mix up a glyphosate weedkiller such as RoundUp in a large bucket. Put on a pair of rubber gloves then a pair of old thick socks over the top of them. Bear with me - sounds ridiculous but it does work 🙂

Dunk hands/gloves/socks into the mix then stroke onto the bindweed leaves thus transferring the weedkiller to the leaves, Might take a couple of goes before it finally gets rid but it will work.

Another wee tip - use the RoundUp at half strength then repeat in a couple of weeks, using half strength again. More effective than using the full strength once.

Good Luck 🙂

[captainbovine]

growing it up a cane is the best way, you can then just weedkiller the top and it goes right down into the plant. If the bindweed is in a shrub, this is the best way to do it.

you can with plants you can reach, gently stretch out the bindweed and pull it out, this way you are weakening the plant continually, and in the end it gives up!

I've been using that new stick that you put on the leaves of weeds and so far.....

it's rubbish:_| I'm just waiting to see if the weeds are growing out of themselves and then they die, or if they are just growing because the stick doesn't work.

[****daisy****]

I've been using that new stick that you put on the leaves of weeds and so far.....

it's rubbish:_| I'm just waiting to see if the weeds are growing out of themselves and then they die, or if they are just growing because the stick doesn't work.

Useless stuff, not one of the weeds I did have died 😞

[captainbovine]

yes daisy.....and the cost of it !!!!!!X-(

[bankhaunter]

Rabbits like bindweed. 🙂

[bidder.17]

Possibly the worst thug in the garden to try to eject. As patch said, it seems to be able to start again, even from a small piece of root, which breaks easily, making removal of them more difficult if you are trying to remove the whole lot. If it's in with other plants, veg, then a suitable weedkiller based on glyphosate or similar, may be an option.

Plants normally take up moisture through root hairs, but take in some via small holes in the leaf, through which they also 'breathe'. These are mostly on the underside of the leaf.

I would obviously follow any manufacturers instructions, but add that taking up of any moisture including weedkiller, is going to be easier in dry sunny conditions, when the plant is losing water. If it isn't, it has little need to take it up, so timing, and hoping for hot weather, may be important. You are likely to need more than one application for  largish growth, for although the promotional literature may sound convincing, a small amount of weedkiller absorbed is likely to be of limited value.

Growing it up a cane is fine, I would suggest, taking that growth, and dunking it in a solution, and leaving it for a while, preferably on a warm, dry day.

As with the nettle problem, if you constantly remove any new growth as soon as it shows, the plant's roots will eventually run out of stored energy. The green bit is the stuff that allows them to go shopping at the supermarket for more, so remove it quickly enough and root will run out of reserves.

[*elphaba*]

In the meantime, if you ever need a laxitive then a tea made of the leaves is what you want.  A tea made of the roots is a bit more emphatic - the word 'purge' doesn't quite do it justice, but still worth remembering - with caution 😄   

Bindweed's bigger brother Convolvulus is a promising tumour inhibitor.   It shuts down blood supply to the tumour, much like Coriolus does.  

By all means get rid - I do from my veg patch - but I thought it might make it feel a bit less of an enemy to know it does have uses and is not just a bully.  

I starve mine by constantly taking off the above soil bits, but I hear the one touch glyphosate is good. 

[023mjc]

growing it up a cane is the best way, you can then just weedkiller the top and it goes right down into the plant. If the bindweed is in a shrub, this is the best way to do it.

you can with plants you can reach, gently stretch out the bindweed and pull it out, this way you are weakening the plant continually, and in the end it gives up!

I've been using that new stick that you put on the leaves of weeds and so far.....

it's rubbish:_| I'm just waiting to see if the weeds are growing out of themselves and then they die, or if they are just growing because the stick doesn't work.

Captain - if you're talking about roundup, it can take 2 or 3 weeks for theed to die. But it IS thorough.

[captainbovine]

well I have to admit it, I went out and looked at those weeds I'd done with that stick, and they've died!!!:O

Guess I have to take it back then....it works:8}

[guardpig]

Glyphosate works fine - eventually.  Didn't work at all the year OH gave me his mosskiller spray instead of the weedkiller one.  I find pulling it out by the handful keeps it manageable each year whereas relying on OH is a bit sporadic.  Keep threatening to buy Roundup in Asda!.  He is not impressed.