F-ing bind weed!
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Anonymous
| Every year it's the same battle. I am tempted to nuke and use pavers on our small row house back yard b/c of the damn weeds! |
Anonymous
| I wish ours would bind and kill off the poison ivy that lurks in ours! |
Anonymous
| I'm constantly pulling them off the roses and peonies and every other living thing, fig, persimmon, Japanese apricot, hydrangea.... I know if I don't our entire backyard will be just a giant mass of weed! |
Anonymous
| No, seriously. Is there anything to do about it? I am going CRAZY and they just keep coming. |
Anonymous
| I hate bindweed and prioritize looking for it and pulling it out while it's small and hasn't become too entwined in anything. I leave other weeds alone in the hopes that I'll have more time to pull them someday. Spending 15 minutes a couple times a week on a search and destroy mission for bindweed is really worth it to me. If you pull them while the soil's wet, you have a better chance of pulling out the root so it won't come back, but even just pulling off the stems is better than nothing. |
Anonymous
| I have read that bindweed hates soggy soil, so you can try to overwater and hope too kill it. But who am I kidding, that's hit can survive a nuclear apocalypse and still come back to strangle all the real plants. |
Anonymous
| There was once a bindweed thread on Gardenweb. One guy cut off the tops to expose fresh stem, then dunked the stems in herbicide which eventually got taken up and killed the roots. Apparently it worked for him, but I am not sure how safe this is. |
Anonymous
| That's one of my tricks for getting rid of Yucca and wisteria. If I really can't dig it up - I'll cut off the top and while it's fresh "paint" it with a little plant poison. The only time I use it. |
Anonymous
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