Bindweed, whose responsibility?

[otolith]

OutInTheShed said:

The way some people go on about a few common weeds, you'd expect 90% of the land mass to be choked by bindweed, ground elder and the like.

If you chop it off a few times, it doesn't get to put energy into its roots. It's a matter of getting on top of the problem and staying on top.

At least you can eat ground elder, which is good because the effing stuff just keeps coming up.

[Dashnine]

thetapeworm said:

ewanjp said:

I got rid of all the bind weed in our garden by getting a 'stick' type glyphostate applicater - like a stick of deodrant. Stuck that on all the weeds I could see for a couple of seasons.

I've read about these and people painting stuff on to target specific weeds but most of the content seems quite old and I get the impression some kind of ban has been brought in over the past year or so due to concerns over the chemicals involved?

I found the RoundUp Gel fantastic at targeting bind weed, but as you say fears over Glyphosate being cancerous (if you bathe in it it seems and subsequent US law suits) have taken it off the shelves, but it does seem to be making a come back but no gel applicators yet that I’ve seen.

[FMOB]

You will need to deal with and be prepared for a sustained effort.

90% of the plant is underground.

[Simpo Two]

Radec said:

The weed has completely taken over the soil area and has come through/over/under mine and neighbours fencing, strangling my roses and plants on the fence border and a bit of damage to the fencing as well.

I'm pretty sure the council have maintained the overgrowth area in the past but not seen them in ages.

Should I be reporting this to them to remove it, and will the remove it from mine/neighbours gardens and rectify the damage it's caused to plants/fences as well?

Rather than just watching it strangling your roses and wondering who to complain to, just pull the fker up. Blitz spirit and all that, right?

[thetapeworm]

I had some lawn weed killer in the garage so decided to give it a go on the bindweed, pulling out what I could and spraying the leaves as well as carefully spraying those that were harder to untangle, it's been a success and the bush that was being overrun by the stuff and dying off is starting to thrive again.



I was a bit less careful further into the car park where the stuff originates from and don't appear to have done any damage to the shrubs nearby either. It may well come back but it's been thwarted for now.

[Double Fault]

I unwind the stuff and then put it all into a large container with a heady glyphosate mixture.

Leave for a few days. Then it dies, and never comes back.

[Wildfire]

Double Fault said:

I unwind the stuff and then put it all into a large container with a heady glyphosate mixture.

Leave for a few days. Then it dies, and never comes back.

I've got in mixed into my hedge. I may give this a go rather than trying to find the root / base and then dabbing gylphsoate on the cut.

[Alex_225]

Bindweed is a pain in the ar$e but not destructive so far as I've experienced. It does grow through fences and intertwine with other plants but it's not like ivy which works through a fence, then thicken until the panel breaks.

I'd go round to that side of the fence and blast it as much as possible with weedkiller. There are specific ones for bindweed that needs to go on the leaves.

As annoying as it is, you can unwind it from your plants easily enough but it's a pain. I have some in the central bed in my back garden. Works it's way round various things.

[Gareth79]

I'm a fan of buying concentrates and mixing my own stuff, I got this recently and it works perfectly:
https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/174653236918

I used it to kill Horsetail/mare's tail, BUT the first attempt didn't work even at 7g/L because apparently it has a waxy coating which resists glyphosate. I googled and the trick is to mix it with 2,4-D which will soften the outer layer. I already had some "Dicophar" selective herbicide concentrate so I mixed a normal amount of that and pretty much the entire lot I sprayed died off within a few days.