Bindweed?!?!

ok.. i have recently discovered this plant coming from my neighbor's side of the fence
flowers kind of like a morning glory, right? it's fighting with my coral vine, and getting all entwined and caught up in everything.. wrapping around everything in the raised bed
how the heck do i get rid of it?!? it's driving me nuts.. because i can't really get close to it to rip it up because it's entwined in the coral vine that's filled with bees because.. well.. it's there for the bees to enjoy and pollinate it...
*sigh*
i will take a picture of it as soon as i can get close enough....

Kim

Kim if you are wanting to get rid of the bindweed in your coral vine the best time to work on that without the bees bothering you is in the evening just before dark. The bees will have gone home to their hives and you will be able to get in there and weed away.

I have read somewhere that bindweed seeds can remain viable for over 20 years so try to get all those seed pods out of there before they drop their seeds. IF they have already dropped some seeds a good way of a bit of control is lots of mulch on the beds. I put four to five inches of mulch down in areas of bindweed and then watch carefully for the plants to start poking their leaves out of the mulch and pull them immediately. If you stay after them they won't have a chance to get big enough to bloom and propagate again. Another way of dealing with them is to take the product RoundUP and mix it up like you are going to spray it but you can instead paint it on the leaves of bindweed or any other weed in your beds. Bindweed is very hardy so you will have to paint it on several times in the next couple of weeks to get complete kill of the plants.

Hope this helps you. Good luck.

Lani

miss_kitty, you have a real problem. This plant is nativ in sweden and here we dont have your problem with it due to our extrem cold winters. Here the plant gets dormant and have to start fom zero every spring so it doesnt take over as it does for you. just red up on this plant because Emmagrace was asking about it.
I think the only thing you can do is either keep cutting it of, or talk to your neibours to get permission to rip it all out. But you will have to pull up the roots to.To you this plant is worse that invasive weed and you call it Field Bindweed
It is Convolvulus arvensis L and its colours is from very pale white/pink to yellow/pink on the back of the flower it got pink/redish stripes

yes Janett that is the plant we seen to deal with all the time here. I have it all around my house but am slowly getting it a bit under control. I try to paint the leaves of it in the early spring when it is stressed from coming out of dormancy and then again when it is blooming because that is another stress on the plant plus we pull it when we see it and I also paint it in the fall before dormancy again. It can just wrap itself around the plants and drag some of them down to the ground like it did a baby Carex I planted. I found it on the ground with the bindweed wrapped around it so well that it took quite some time to get it off the poor Carex. I am now painting the leaves of those plants on a regular basis.

Definately not a fun plant to have in your garden but they are pretty flowers. .

you can send some to WillowWasp and EmmaGrace, they have asked if I cold get a hold of some here in sweden. I know its not the same as If I would send them some seeds that has crossed the globe. But I think your agrocultural dep. dont alowe any import of this plant. I know we have it that way when it comes to grasses even if the grass are nativ to this country
Hierocloe odorata is such a grass.
Janett

oh if it seeds can i have some before you kill it off??? runners are welcome too.


i have a spot nothing grows in and i could let this cover it and it wont be in my way. oh its a pretty flower too.