Global thermonuclear war

I`ll believe you.:D

 

:rotfl: i am just crying with laughter at your imagination!! I have bindweed in my garden (im in the process of clearing the weeds and digging it over). So i'm very interested to know which grow!!!

 

Nooooo [runs away screaming with fear]

If you simply pull it up and dig the patch over, you will be inundated with the stuff in no time at all.

Bindweed is one of those horrible weeds that actually enjoys being ripped out. It makes it grow better. for every one stem you pull out at ground level, you can expect five or six new ones in a couple of weeks. I made this mistake for a while, before abandoning the garden for about a year because I just couldn't keep on top of it. Then suffering garden withdrawal I decided to take drastic action and sprayed the lot, as described above.

The thing is with bindweed is this. Some plants are best propagated from seed, some by layers, some by root division, and some from cuttings. Bindweed really doesn't care either way. It enjoys pain. When you snap a bit off it laughs, then offers up more bits for you to do it again. Its sole purpose in life is to make gardeners tear their hair out. If has no other function, and it has become highly specialised in its ability to frustrate you.

 

That sounds like pretty dangerous stuff amanita, is it just for commercial use, I don't recall seeing it for sale at B&Q.

 

All this reading abaout bindweed promted me to go google and I came up with these horrendous facts.

Common names: wild mourning glory, creeping Jenny, and European bindweed. Roots: The roots of field bindweed, reproduce seeds and horizontal roots. A two or three year food supply is stored in an under ground root system of the plant. (1) The roots can grow up to five meters deep in the soil. Field bindweeds tap roots extend more than 3 meters in the soil. It also has an extensive system of lateral roots. (2)
Stems and Leaves: The leaves of field bindweed are smooth, slender, and slightly angled. The stems can be about one to four feet long. They spread thickly over the ground, and they wind around and strangle other plants and objects.(1) Their vine like stems trail on the ground or they wind around support. They also entangle surrounding plants. (3) The leaves are about one to two inches long, arrow shaped, with a blunt base. (1)
Flowers: The flowers of field bindweed are bell shaped. Many people mistake them for mourning glories. (6) The color of the flower can be white, pink, or variegated. The size of the flower is about 3/4 inches broad.(1) There are two small bracts that are 2.5 centimeters below the flower.(3)
Seeds: The seeds of field bindweed stay viable in the soil for up to 40 years. (1) They reproduce by seeds and rhizomes. The seed pods of field bindweed are pointed and five mm long. The plant also has four rough pear shaped seeds that grow in each pod.
Methods of Reproduction / Spread: Field bindweeds method of reproduction and spread are seeds, rhizomes and sprouting from the roots. (1)
Life Style/ Habits/ Life Duration: The stems of field bindweed can live up to fifty years. Field bindweed habits are winding around and infesting other plants and objects. (1)
Environments Favorable to Infestation: Field bindweed can be found in many different conditions, and at many elevations. It is also found in all types of ground such as, cultivated fields and waste places. Field bindweed grows best in fertile, dry, or semi~moist soils, and it is extremely difficult to control. (4)
Impacts: Field bindweed effects the area by strangling the surrounding plants and objects. (1)



I always thought it looked rather nice in hedgerows...
Once again I thank you for the education
robert

 

I have creeping Jenny in pots, it doesn't look like bindweed. I quite like it-in the pots trailing down, gorgeous yellow flowers. Am I losing my mind?

 

Isn't Creeping Jenny a form of Ajuga?

 

Lysimachia I think.

 

"wild mourning glory,"

Nice Freudian slip Robert, I'd love to be mourning mine!

(Given that I can't spell to save my life I'll have to hope to bejezzus that I've got that right!!)

Remembering the bumper sticker I saw in USA "Come back Lee Harvey Oswald now your country needs you" !! I think I'll get a garden-gate sticker "Come Back Agent Orange - All is forgiven and your garden needs you" :D

 

You've got me all twitchy now-I am off out to check on it all. I must be going bopnkers because I do have it-I have even propagated it-crikey

 

What is the weed i having coming back again and again in my raised beds ?

It looks like Asparagus tips......Anyone got any ideas ??

Cheers

 

Are you sure it isn't asparagus?

 

Sounds like Mares Tails to me :( :( :( (actually more correctly called Horsetail, as Mares Tail is technically a water weed, but everyone I know calls the "Asparagus" one Mares Tail).

 

2,4-D is a component of Agent Orange which, incidentially, was developed by the British and first used in Malaysia.

I think its used in Verdone