bindweed
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Q: How can I get rid of bindweed in my garden?
For the last few years I have been plagued by bindweed in my perennial garden. I’ve tried bindweed mites from an extension service, pulling the vines, and someone suggested cutting them with scissors. Nothing seems to work. I’m trying not to use chemical weed killers in my yard but am getting desperate!
A: I have bind weed and it is not easy to control/remove.
Do not try to pull this weed as was suggested in the previous post. Bind weed spreads by rhizomes. If you break the rhizome, it will produce a new shoot and three new rhizomes. The only way to rid this is with a systemic.
I’ve heard that vinegar wiped on the leaves will work. It does take multiple applications. I’ve not tried this, so I do not know personally if this will work.
The University of Illinois Extension Service recommends glyphosate (Round Up has glyphosate as an example). This will trans locate to the roots and kill the entire plant. If you have it wrapped around your perennials like me, then you can not spray the Round Up. Instead, get a foam paint brush, dip it into the round up and paint the leaves of the bind weed. Be careful not to get Round Up on the perennials. It may take at least two apps, but it will kill the bind weed. Good luck.
Q: How do you remove field bindweed from gardens?
I have a real problem with field bindweed in my garden and lawn. How can I remove them, either with herbicides or organically?
A: Here is a great article and many herbicide recommendations.
http://www.ipm.ucdavis.edu/PMG/PESTNOTES/pn7462.html
Q: My garden is infested with bindweed – how do I get rid of it?
I think it’s bindweed. It has “ace of spades” shaped leaves and it wraps itself around everything, choking it to death.
Can you let me know what options I have to get rid of the stuff. I’d prefer an organic solution, but if there are chemical treatments too then let me know about them.
A: No option but a bit of hard work on this weed,you’ve got to dig it out,making sure you get every bit of root,otherwise it will just come back.
Q: What is an effective, earth-friendly way to get rid of bindweed growing among flowers?
Pulling the bindweed,aka devil gut aka morning glory (not much glory about it), might slow it down, but i can’t get enough of the root to kill it completely. Has anyone had success in ridding a flower bed of bindweed?
A: paint using a small artist brush a few of the leafs near the stalk base with roundup
Q: How deep do I have to dig to get rid of bindweed? Should I hire a mini-digger?
Bindweed is taking over and driving me mental. Even my lawn has bindweed now. How to get rid of it? Which weedkiller works (if any)?
A: The roots of bindweed are energy stores (like a potato). The long-term answer is to keep on cutting off and destroying all the green shoots. Without leaves to photosynthesise & replace lost energy, the roots will eventually be exhausted & die.
Quite right not to break up the root system. Like a potato, the plant will regenerate from every fragment. The idea of letting it develop before poisoning it sounds attractive, but I’d be afraid of letting it get such a hold; systemic weedkillers are not always as deadly in practice as it says on the tin. If you do go down this road, spray the leaves first with water to encourage the poison to adhere & coat the whole leaf.
One advantage of the training method is that until you actually whack the plant, it will be beautiful. The flowers would be prized at shows if the plant weren’t such a pest.
Q: Does anyone have a good method to get rid of bindweed?
Bindweed seems to grow everywhere and the roots go on forever. thanks
A: I hate it too, and I agree, it’s very difficult to deal with.
There are 3 methods: “nonviolent”: http://www.pesticide.org/bindweed.html
and “violent”: herbicide sprayed on the leaves and roots (with repeated applications as necessary); or (if you can locate the roots and there are no valuable plants nearby) pour a gallon of HOT BOILING WATER on the base of the plant. (This is cheap and often effective.)
Q: What is the best way to get rid of mass amounts of bindweed. We can’t dig it, it just keeps coming back!!!
Much bindweed in my vegetable garden. We tried using a gel based herbacide by Spectracide but it inly killed the leaves, and the only effective way we know of is digging it up and going though it and pulling out the roots….VERY TEDIOUS!!! Help me please!
A: I found round-up very effective (finally)on my mexican heather. a combination of that and lots of digging. here is a page devoted to getting rid of bindweed >> http://www.pesticide.org/bindweed.html although it still involves pulling and evidently these bindweed seeds are tough. I’d say pay the kids bounty money for all the bindweed they can get rid of. Either your children, or a neighborhood kid who is looking to make some candy and soda money. I used to get paid for pulling out poison ivy.
Q: How do I rid my garden of Bindweed?
It’s right through my garden coming through my lawn and patio most weed killers I use don’t work! I also want to be careful not to kill my lawn.
A: You may be able to get glyphosate gel in a pen, you paint the leaves without spraying all over the place.
Keep an eye out for it and never let it flower, it can spread by seed. Just keep at it, fork it up as soon as you see it if its in a bed. Use the gel stick in areas like your lawn where you don’t want to disturb the soil. You can cut the tops off leaving 3 or 4 leaves at the bottom so it doesn’t get a chance to bind.
Q: I thought I had bindweed in my garden but just realised the fowers are different. Has anyone else got this?
Instead of big round white flowers it has little fluffy ones like a kind of elder flower. It acts just like bindweed though and wraps itself around my trees and shrubs.
A: Look up Clematis Vitalba —old mans beard
If so you are in luck —its a nice wildflower
Q: Is bindweed and convovulvus the same plant?
And will it grow alongside honeysuckle well?
A: Bindweed is in the convolvulaceae (morningglory family) but hedge bindweed is calystegia sepium (L.)R. Br. and also called lady’s nightcap, bell-bind, Rutland beauty, but is also called convolvulus sepium L.. Field bind weed in convolvulus arvensis L. and is a perennial with an extensive root system with white to pinkish flowers (a serious weed problem in all parts of the US except southeastern states. The roots can penetrate the soil to a depth of 20 feet; and the seeds are viable for up to 50 years–non-standard names are creeping jenny, wild morninglory, perennial morningglory. There over 1000 species of morning glory. The bindweed would probably choke out your honeysuckle and vie for the nutrients in the soil.
Q: I filled raised beds with compost full of bindweed roots & then planted veggies. Should I start over?
A friend offered me free compost. Turns out it’s full of bindweed. Should I consider my first planting a total loss, get rid of all the earth, and start over? Or is there a less drastic way to deal with the bindweed that won’t mean I’m fighting it every year from now on?
A: If you’re organic, yes, start over. This could mean replacing all the earth, or it could mean smothering those beds for at least a year with black plastic.
Bindweed roots can go down ten (some say twenty) feet, so if they’ve not been there long, I say dig it all out and start over, before the roots can go deep.
Q: How do I get rid of morning glory aka bindweed without killing my lawn?
I have Morning Glory all over my lawn. I don’t want to kill the lawn. Is there an immediate solution?
A: A good broad-leaf weed killer like Weed B Gone, used according to instructions.
Q: How can I get rid of this bindweed?
I have a huge problem with it, as it is choking out my rosebushes!! They are (or were, rather!) beautiful and mature bushes and this vine is killing them!! I am afraid to use Roundup because it might kill the bushes! Also under the bushes is a bed of ivy…any suggestions besides Roundup and burning the whole mess down and starting over?
A: Oh boy. If your bindweed is rampant, you have some job on your hands. If you use weedkillers several (or many) applications will be needed. You can wrap bushes in dustbin bags/plastic sheets etc,before spraying, but many weary old gardeners know that digging it out is the best method. Every single last piece must be removed, as bindweed has extensive underground roots.
Q: How poisonous is field bindweed?
what kind of poison does it have and how would it effect animals that eat it?
A: There are no references indicating that the plant is poisonous to humans. However, seeds are suspected of containing toxic and hallucinogenic substances. Roots may be slightly poisonous to swine, although they frequently eat the weed and are usually not affected.
http://www.oardc.ohio-state.edu/weedguide/singlerecordframe2.asp?id=610
Q: Anybody know anything about the uses of bindweed or bindweed extract in treating cancer?
It is supposed to defeat blood vessel proliferation to tumors. Anybody got any experience with that?
How long it takes to act, etc.
I have been told it might take several months.
A: I was curious after reading your question. I did a check and this is what I found. My own doctor thinks it’s a bunch of hooey. I myself haven’t got a clue.
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&safe=off&rlz=1W1ADFA_en&q=bindweed+and+cancer&aq=f&oq=&aqi=
Drs. are smart but they don’t know everything.
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