Argh! Bindweed!!

I think there is bindweed growing through next doors hedge! We chopped it back (leylandi) so it was dead on our side, trailed jasmine and clematis through it and it was looking fab until this stuff just started growing from the middle! I have googled a pic and it looks like bindweed!

All I know is that it is BAD! What do I do?!

Ps - pics attached! In the first you can clearly see how it is snaking along the grass now as well... in the second, you can see my jasmine, drowning in it!!

 

Yep, that`s Bindweed alright. if you are unable to spray it safely with Glyphosate then you are just going to have to rip out what you can by hand.:thumb:

 

You could try glyphosate based weedkiller- spray or paint on gel.

Personally Ive found only persistence will beat it. Is your neighbour likely to let you go round and give a hand digging it up? you'd have to ensure to get all the root though.

 

I would spray it with glyphosphate - and when it reappears spray it again.
I've never seen any point in digging it up. Any little piece left in the ground will regrow - and there's always some left in the ground.

About your jasmin and clematis - well that's a shame But
You could take this years show from them then prune them low down and protect them with something before doing the glyphosphate spraying. I'm sure it will work out for you.

 

Commiserations - I have to live with bindweed which finds its way under the fence from the neglected garden next door. For me, there's little point in spraying, because the wretched stuff will always find its way back.

On the positive side, it's not like finding you have Japanese knotweed. If you can't or don't want to spray, you can control bindweed quite well by digging out all the root you can find (you'll soon get to recognise the fat, whitish runners which snake their way under the surface of the soil) and then being vigilant at pulling up any new shoots which appear. And they will, I'm afraid - any bit of root left in the ground will grow a new plant. However, if you continue to wage war for a while you'll find that the rate of growth does slow somewhat - as long as you stay on the case.

 

Disentangle as much of the bindweed from the Jasmine as possible and lay it on the ground in front of the Jasmine. Put a bucket/high sided plastic trug or similar on the ground and place a plastic bag inside it. Make sure the bucket/trug and plastic bag are sound, no holes. Put as much bindweed as possible inside the plastic bag then spray the bindweed inside the bag with Glyphosate. Tie the handles of the plastic bag together and wait at least seven days. After seven days cut the bindweed stems going into the plastic bag and remove any dead bindweed from the Jasmine. Dispose of the plastic bag then repeat the process as necessary until the bindweed is gone.

 

Paint the leaves with SBK. It'll kill it right back to the roots, even if they're in your neighbours garden.

 

Axl, that is really very cunning!

 

this sounds like a great option - I will try it this weekend :-) I cannot believe I have spent so much time making my garden look pretty and its gone and taken over - ARGH!

Thanks!

 

Another suggestion for the bindweed - it's a climber - stick a few canes in the ground and let it climb up the canes, then spry the foliage with glyphosphate. Glyphosphate does work, but you may have to do it several times.

 

Good tip, Alice. Thankyou. Personally I'll use Sbk 'cause you only have to do it once. Each to his own.

 

Chuckle.

I would sympathise but I've been fighting a bindweed infestation since I moved into my house 7 years ago.

An annual ritual of spraying with glyphosate where it is easy to apply, using the various cane, bag, and leaf-wipe methods described above, and digging out seedlings as they appear.

It's certainly less of a problem for me now, but it's still there. Another 10 years and I might have eradicated it for good!

Be aggressive, persistent and prepare for a long haul!

 

I still have a problem with bindweed occasionally creeping under the concrete base panels of the shared fence I have with a neighbour.
But it least it isn't "ganging up" with the ground elder in the same places any more. I've managed to eradicate that.

 

So why don't you guys use SBK Two hits and it's gone. I've cleared Bindweed and Ground Elder from several gardens by using it. Am I missing something.

 

SBK is nasty stuff. The active ingredient, Triclopyr, can stay active in the soil, soil water and vegetation for months after application.

Glyphosate breaks down immediately on contact with soil, and is equally effective.