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Talkback: Dealing with bindweed
nuthouse23
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Hi, I've found that if I get small pop bottles and fill them up with a strong weedkiller, bury them in the soil near where the tendrils are coming up, I can put the tendrils in the bottles and they take on the weedkiller over a much longer time than just dabbing or spraying a weedkiller on them.
This stops insects, animals and children from getting to the weedkiller.
This stops insects, animals and children from getting to the weedkiller.
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As long as children don't find the pop bottles filled with poison !!! Sounds really dangerous to me!!!
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
It should be alright shouldn't it ,if you bury them up to there necks and also if there are no children?
It sounds wonderful; but then I don't have munchkins in my garden
I have found that a coiled tendril in a plastic bag with a spray of weed killer can be quite effective.
I heard a good tip from a gardeners world chap, and it really works, he said do not pull the vine weed out of the ground as this activates the weed and it starts to multiply.
Unwind it from the plant as much as possible, stick a garden cane into the ground at the side of the weed or as near as possible.
Wrap the vine weed around the cane, then put weed killer on as many leaves as you can (doesn't have to be all of them) over a short time the weed killer will be taken into the roots and the weed will die.
My entire 4m x 10m garden is full of it. It especially comes underground from the rented house gardens either side too. It is even growing under the house and coming out of the air bricks. Digging it all out was a pointless exercise as it was back within weeks and weedkiller does almost nothing and I have tried several types despite normally avoiding all nasty chemicals in my garden. I am at my wits end with it. Actually want to move house just to get away from it.
Lily 3 - pleased to hear you have a Border. We have one too,his name is Robbie and he's two. Always following me in the garden,shoving his nose into the soil if I'm digging. Him and his side-kick Lexie the Black Lab