Bindweed

Bindweed, devils guts, call it what you will but the neighbours bindweed is coming through the fence and right under my bed. Found masses of it and incredibly long root systems in a bed with lots of shrubs, bulbs and plants!!!! I'm going to get some damp proof course plastic to stop invasion from her garden but what is the best method for getting rid of controlling what is there without taking out all my plants!!???? I heard you can dip the plant in bindweed poison so as not to spray but wonder if anyone had any other ideas??

 

Thanks Shiny,

Is that a technical term Will have a go at that as I have lots of old kitchen gloves in the potting shed for gardening chores.

If I keep uprooting the bindweed, besides giving me an extra chore of weeding, do they eventually do any great damage to the plants and bed or are they just a nuisance?

 

Found them in another bed today :( Going to keep pulling for now and may get some weed killer eventually and try the glove idea and empty the container onto a cotton ball and use that to help distribute the chemical.

 

I find that this is the best time of year to hoe the tops of emerging plants; if you have a big garden this may be a chore but I have found it is easier to do this than wait until they are bigger. It will gradually weaken the roots without weedkillers.
Good Luck!

 

You guys have more patience than me. I use S.B.K. on bindweed and Ground Elder. I've managed to clear 3 gardens that I work in of both these nuisances. Sometimes I can spray and other times I paint the leaves with it but it's worth persisting. They're both a xxxxxx nuisance, all the best

 

The weed killer I used killed off one of newly planted Dahlias but I've got a new hand fork today which has made digging back the bindweed to my neighbours fence really easy.