Anybody familiar with Bindweeds?

It’s a nasty aggressive weed similar in appearance to morning glories. It’s supposed to be almost impossible to control. I’ve never dealt with it personally.

Well I guess you know what I will be doing after work! I should probably get to this before it seeds. Thanks!

They grow in the lawn of the park across the street from my home. I find them to be quite lovely. I don’t have them in my yard, however, so I don’t know how difficult they are to control. At the park, they’re just in patches of the lawn…it’s not like they’ve taken over.

Apparently the AG dept recommends you plant either pumpkin vines or sunflowers where the bindweed is growing, as either of these will steal the sunlight and help you crouch out the weed.

If it were me, I’d pull and pull and keep pulling. I’ve found actually eradication to be easiest with constant removal.

They run rampant here on low-growing shrubbery that is undisturbed. And although they are pretty, they can get a strangle-hold on things quickly.

Just yank away and coil as you would a clothes-line rope or a nautical one.

I grew Morning Glories from seed this year and they were doing beautifully until last week when the deer ate all the vines. However, they don’t touch the bindweeds, which are relatives but from the other side of the track, apparently.

I now try to seed wild Sweet Peas in areas where the poison ivy and bindweed are happy. The Sweet Pea is pretty and more manageable.

It’s unlikely you’ll get rid of bind weed simply by pulling. The tiniest weed root can produce a new vine quite quickly.

I hate using poison, but this is a situation I’d certainly consider it.

@snowberry That is what I just read too. One site recommended cutting the plant to the ground but not pulling and re-cutting until the very end of the season and then use Weed-B-Gone applied to the stem by hand.

This vine (along with two other types of vine) is pretty much the bane of my existence in the garden. It crops up everywhere, has incredibly deep roots, and is pretty much impossible to get rid of. We garden organically and seeing that I am the house girl, guess who gets to crawl around on her knees yanking this damn vine from everywhere?

It is a pain in the ass. Yes, the flowers are pretty. However, it will quite easily and quickly choke the other plants you have growing there. It’s aggressive, hardy, and impossible to get rid of by hand. If you want to keep it, you have a lot of tugging ahead of you. :)

@MissAnthrope I can see that happening as the one plant has grown over 20 feet in two directions. I am now worried the genie is out of the bottle! :(

If you leave even the tiniest bit of root in the ground, they will cheerfully regrow.

@laureth I cut the weed down to a 2” stem and hopefully only have 2 to deal with at this stage. I will hit it with weed killer the next chance I get and cross my fingers come spring.

@Cruiser has a good point. If you cut a weed and then hit it with poison, it seems to ignore the message because it’s already gone into “protection mode” and is more resistant to the poison. Better to cut it short, and let it get the “protection mode” out of its system, and THEN use the poison. It cuts down on the amount of poison you use, which is certainly a good idea.