Blooming Bind Weed - How do you kill it?

[mattman]

Just got back from a couple of weeks holiday to find that bind weed has completely taken over the veggie plot.

Took a while to dig through the worst of it, but it just seems like I'm forever pulling white roots out with no sign of the source.

Any tips/suggestions for getting rid of this stuff as it seems to be taking over!

[spikeyhead]

Go and buy some tescos value lemonade in 2l plastic bottles. Pour the contents down the sink as it's the bottles you're after. Under no circumstances be tempted to even taste the vile contents.

Chop the bottoms off the bottles, scrunch up as much of the bindweed into a bottle so that it's near it's root, spray on a load of sytemic weed killer and push the bittle into the ground. The weedkiller will then not spread anywhere and be taken down into the root sytem to kill it off. Forget any other way of dealing with bindweed including small thermonuclear devices. The stuff us capable of surviving anything.

[Trustmeimadoctor]

we have use systemic killer on ours granted not on a veg patch but it seems to have worked so far

[sunbeam alpine]

spikeyhead said:

Go and buy some tescos value lemonade in 2l plastic bottles. Pour the contents down the sink as it's the bottles you're after. Under no circumstances be tempted to even taste the vile contents.

Chop the bottoms off the bottles, scrunch up as much of the bindweed into a bottle so that it's near it's root, spray on a load of sytemic weed killer and push the bittle into the ground. The weedkiller will then not spread anywhere and be taken down into the root sytem to kill it off. Forget any other way of dealing with bindweed including small thermonuclear devices. The stuff us capable of surviving anything.

Wow. This is excellent advice! I'll be trying this myself. Do you think if I can nick a couple of empty cider bottles off a sleeping tramp that they'll work as well?

[TimJMS]

The systemic killer you need is Glyphosate. Most often known as Roundup.

[Trustmeimadoctor]

it was as they invented it but the rights to exclusively manufacture it is now at an end so many other company's use it in their products too

[TimJMS]

Indeed. It was the making of Monsanto.

[Tanguero]

I was once advised that the only way you can really get rid of bindweed is to dig to a depth of 40 feet at least 6 times a year throwing away every bit of root you find.

[TimJMS]

If you're into organic.

[spikeyhead]

Tanguero said:

I was once advised that the only way you can really get rid of bindweed is to dig to a depth of 40 feet at least 6 times a year throwing away every bit of root you find.

feel free, I'll be spending a few pence on Tesco value lemonade and some weedkiller.

Alternatively, perhaps using the lemonade on the veggie patch. I'd be concerned that this would contaminate the food.

[DrDeAtH]

+1 for Roundup, i mixed it 3x recommended strength... job done but bind weed is a bugger to kill off, the roots go very very deep

[Chrisgr31]

I have in the past just continually pulled up bindweed, eventually it got the idea and went away.