Bind weed

[T5GRF]

I’ve got part of my garden that is badly affected by bind weed. I’ve tried training it up canes etc but the beds are full of plants and it’s impractical to deal with all the vines. Spraying the leaves with commercially available weed killer makes no different. Short of digging the lot out and starting again or digging out the plants and using weed suppressant is there another way to eliminate it?

[Simpo Two]

T5GRF said:

Spraying the leaves with commercially available weed killer makes no different.

What product are you using?

It's either that or pull it out by hand I think.

[Evanivitch]

Glyphosate mixed with some washing up liquid painted on.

Or just.keep ripping. I've largely defeated it in my garden, but takes a few years.

[T5GRF]

10 years ago I spent a few days digging the bd stuff out or so I thought.. it seems to have gone bananas in the last year or two and I’ve been too busy to keep on top of it

[Simpo Two]

Evanivitch said:

Glyphosate mixed with some washing up liquid painted on.

Or just.keep ripping. I've largely defeated it in my garden, but takes a few years.

Painted-on glyphosate is the best you can do in a garden, assuming you have the concentration right. No need to add extra stuff, the formulation already has wetting agents to help. Try it again as per instructions on a dry day, and give it 7-14 days to work. It's not fast. If still no joy, keep ripping. Or buy a goat

[Evanivitch]

Simpo Two said:

Painted-on glyphosate is the best you can do in a garden, assuming you have the concentration right. No need to add extra stuff, the formulation already has wetting agents to help. Try it again as per instructions on a dry day, and give it 7-14 days to work. It's not fast. If still no joy, keep ripping. Or buy a goat

Wasn't aware gallop came with wetting agent included.

[alock]

This...

https://amzn.eu/d/a7uHSwP

Mixed in a standard pump sprayer. Two weeks later everything is dead

[JeremyH5]

I have managed to eradicate bindweed from large flower beds by adopting a systematic approach.

Uncoil each upward growing shoot from the other plants and coil it down on the earth between other plants then apply glyphosate weed killer, Roundup in my case. Keep at it over many weeks and months and you’ll succeed. A nice summer evening pastime after work

[Radec]

There was some good advice on removal from a thread I created on it a while back.

https://www.pistonheads.com/gassing/topic.asp?h=0&...

[Skyedriver]

Just keep pulling it out, it's competing with the "Sticky Weed" for space. Both a damn nuisance.

[LR90]

You can train it up bamboo canes and then nuke it with glyphosate. That’s what I do. It’s always best to wait until it’s in flower as well - now until September is the perfect time of year to tackle it.

[Simpo Two]

Evanivitch said:

Simpo Two said:

Painted-on glyphosate is the best you can do in a garden, assuming you have the concentration right. No need to add extra stuff, the formulation already has wetting agents to help. Try it again as per instructions on a dry day, and give it 7-14 days to work. It's not fast. If still no joy, keep ripping. Or buy a goat

Wasn't aware gallop came with wetting agent included.

As far as I'm aware Gallup is an agrochemical product and as such probably a different formulation from retail versions of glyphosate. But I'm pretty sure they all have surfactants to aid efficacy. That's what trials work is for. The industry certainly doesn't sell products expecting the user to put Fairy Liquid in!

[The Three D Mucketeer]

I got the problem too ... all over the garden , but on particular bad area.... I nucked it with Gallup 3 times ... (a strong dose in the end) ... Killed the tops and some roots, but it only takes one pieces of root to start it off again , of course killed everything else aswell ..... even managed to kill to the edge of the lawn by being washed off by rain.
I'm converting the area to another rockery , going to try to remove every piece of root and lay a membrane to try and stop it.

[dhutch]

Yeah, its fairly invastive.

We have bindweed, and sticky weed, and ground alder.

[BobToc]

I’m a weirdo who finds pulling it out quite satisfying. Currently fighting a war on behalf of the lawn grass against all the other bd weeds.

[Evanivitch]

The Three D Mucketeer said:

I got the problem too ... all over the garden , but on particular bad area.... I nucked it with Gallup 3 times ... (a strong dose in the end) ... Killed the tops and some roots, but it only takes one pieces of root to start it off again , of course killed everything else aswell ..... even managed to kill to the edge of the lawn by being washed off by rain.
I'm converting the area to another rockery , going to try to remove every piece of root and lay a membrane to try and stop it.

Boiling water can help with roots.

[dhutch]

BobToc said:

I m a weirdo who finds pulling it out quite satisfying.

The first time or two, yes. And when you clearing the plot, yes.

When its the four time your untangling it from your new strawberry plants and fruit netting, you could quite happily just have it bugger off for a bit!

[The Three D Mucketeer]

This is area I "nuked" with GALLUP XL .... It;s done it's job ... Now the hard work begins



The lawn will recover ..(I hope)

[BobToc]

Honestly I think I’m weird, never get bored of it despite the seeming endless amount of it!

[RSTurboPaul]

The Three D Mucketeer said:

This is area I "nuked" with GALLUP XL .... It;s done it's job ... Now the hard work begins



The lawn will recover ..(I hope)

And if the issue is it has seeded itself across the lawn... ?!

I am presuming in that instance, 'the nuclear option' basically means killing the entire lawn with chemicals and then re-seeding, or stripping the turf to a depth of x inches and relaying!