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    Is there a way to kill of bindweed without contaminating the soil or damaging near...

    by vegetable crops?
    This weeks hot and sunny weather have made the thing go nuts. The part of the garden it is mostly infested with it is mainly broad beans so right now it's an all out war with the two. Apart from pulling it up when ever i see the stuff, is there a way I can kill it off with out damaging my beans? or is it best to wait until the end of the growing season?
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    Put a cane in the ground next to the bindweed and let it climb up this, then mix some glysophate and paint on the leaves, wallah bindweed kaput

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    • #3
      Originally posted by PAULW View Post
      Put a cane in the ground next to the bindweed and let it climb up this ...
      ... then unwrap the bindweed and dunk it in a bath of glypho (a bit more thorough and quicker than painting it on)
      All gardeners know better than other gardeners." -- Chinese Proverb.

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      • #4
        Or keep pulling it up until it weakens and you harvest the crops - then you can dig the worst out.
        Whooops - now what are the dogs getting up to?

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        • #5
          Good luck, I'm still battling with mine

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          • #6
            Originally posted by Jeanied View Post
            Or keep pulling it up until it weakens
            I've been pulling it and digging it out for 4 years now. It isn't aware that it's supposed to weaken and give up


            bladdy stuff
            All gardeners know better than other gardeners." -- Chinese Proverb.

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            • #7
              Ah - 4 years, well maybe it takes a bit longer! Mine was covered in the stuff 10 years ago but it is not nearly so bad now!

              One year I ran out of string to tie up the sweet peas - so I used bindweed stems
              Last edited by Jeanied; 02-06-2012, 06:48 PM.
              Whooops - now what are the dogs getting up to?

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              • #8
                My plot is definitely better than it was ... the main problem is that the bindweed is coming from next door, and next door isn't on top of his weeding
                All gardeners know better than other gardeners." -- Chinese Proverb.

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                • #9
                  Originally posted by Two_Sheds View Post
                  My plot is definitely better than it was ... the main problem is that the bindweed is coming from next door, and next door isn't on top of his weeding
                  Same thing here. It comes from the garden behind mine, which is owned by an elderly couple who has just given up with it. How much i battle it will always come back!

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                  • #10
                    As with all the weeds on my plot I just keep pulling the stuff up the best I can - don't want to used chemicals and it's perseverance is definitely helping.

                    Some of us live in the past, always talking about back then. Some of us live in the future, always planning what we are going to do. And, then there are those, who neither look behind or ahead, but just enjoy the moment of right now.

                    Which one are you and is it how you want to be?

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