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Feel like such an idiot. Thought the vine weed growing around my flower beds was quite pretty--especially as the flowers started to blossom. Ummm... now it is taking over, choking my perennials and multiplying at light speed. I've pulled all I could see out by hand (took me over 4 hours). Any recommendations on keeping it in control? I am worried using round up will kill my other plants/ flowers.
Yes, that's what it is--thank you for the informative article. Looks like I will be pulling up this awful stuff on a regular basis. I'm not sure how to get to the roots at this point now because everything else is grown in. I may need to get aggressive with the roots in the fall. Ugh.
Hand-pulling bindweed might keep it from choking out your other plants, but you'll never kill it that way because of the extensive root system. Roundup is about the only option. If they're growing around your other plants, unwind the bindwinds from the good plants and spray them while using a piece of cardboard or something like that as a shield. You might have to zap them repeatedly before they start to get the idea that they're supposed to die and not come back.
Rather than spraying with roundup, I've also heard of folks gathering up the long strands of bindweed and stuffing them in a glass jar filled with a dilute roundup solution, and leaving them like that until they die.
Rather than spraying with roundup, I've also heard of folks gathering up the long strands of bindweed and stuffing them in a glass jar filled with a dilute roundup solution, and leaving them like that until they die.[/quote]
This is a great idea. I have so many perennials and other plants that would be damaged by the Round Up but I think this could potentially be worth a shot.
Rather than spraying with roundup, I've also heard of folks gathering up the long strands of bindweed and stuffing them in a glass jar filled with a dilute roundup solution, and leaving them like that until they die.
This is a great idea. I have so many perennials and other plants that would be damaged by the Round Up but I think this could potentially be worth a shot.[/quote]
Another option for Roundup is to use the foam throwaway brushes and paint the leaves. Remember the new dilutions Consumer have less of the active ingredient then in the past. Wear rubber gloves and use the concentrate in about double strength add a couple of drops of Dawn dish soap to act as a wetting agent. You can also add some Broad-leaf weed killer also to the mix with this delivery method.
BTW the leaves you need to focus on are the ones near the ground the sap runs in both direction from those.
I pull and sometimes use Round-up and make little progress against Bindweed that seems to be from a very deep root source. I am just hoping that persistent battles will eventually reduce the pest.
I pull and sometimes use Round-up and make little progress against Bindweed that seems to be from a very deep root source. I am just hoping that persistent battles will eventually reduce the pest.
Bindweed was running rampant over one side of my yard when I bought my house 3+ years ago. I've now got it down to about half a dozen persistent plants that keep coming up in the same spots now -- I zap 'em with the roundup as soon as as I see the leaves sprouting up. The root systems might have enough stored energy to keep coming back for a while longer, but I think that with no top growth and the repeated doses of the roundup, they are going to give up the ghost eventually. OTOH there may also be new plants trying to get established, too (the whole neighborhood is infested with it) so I don't think the stuff is ever going to go away permanently.
Bindweed was running rampant over one side of my yard when I bought my house 3+ years ago. I've now got it down to about half a dozen persistent plants that keep coming up in the same spots now -- I zap 'em with the roundup as soon as as I see the leaves sprouting up. The root systems might have enough stored energy to keep coming back for a while longer, but I think that with no top growth and the repeated doses of the roundup, they are going to give up the ghost eventually. OTOH there may also be new plants trying to get established, too (the whole neighborhood is infested with it) so I don't think the stuff is ever going to go away permanently.
I agree. It's hard to get rid of when it is all over the neighborhood and open space areas around here. Behind our house is a giant open space meadow and I believe the bind weed is just a native plant to this area that is meant to be here so it will probably always be a battle to keep it out of our grass and flower beds. I figure as long as it is pulled before it can over take and destroy my other plants we will be okay. In the winter the frost makes everything die off so it does have somewhat of a life span (above ground anyway!) for the year. It is still driving me crazy though.
Field bindweed is *not* native to the Americas; it comes from Asia and Europe. In Colorado it's designated a "noxious weed" by the state.
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