what is the best way to get rid of so many morning glories?

I have seedlings all over ny garden strangling all of my sweet peas azalea's and every other plant that gets in it's way. Thanks for any help

You have to weed them the same way you weed out other weeds and unwanted grasses. You can hand pull close to your wanted plants and weedkiller will also take care of the job as well.

Once you pull them or kill them with weedkiller they are gone for good particularly if you do this before they make any ripe seed pods.

dancinglady - There are no herbicides specific for MG's so hand pulling any volunteers and/or hand snipping them at the ground level is the recommeded removal method at this point...

Did you plant annual MG's last season...(?)...or is this possibly a new residence for you that had MG's that self re-seeded before you had the oppurtunity to prevent unwanted spreading of the seeds by removing the vines and/or seedpods before they could become problematic for you(?)...

You may have a wild perennial type that spreads by underground rhizomes as entered in ther PlantFiles here...

Calystegia sepium
http://davesgarden.com/pf/go/2890/index.html

Convolvulus arvensis
http://davesgarden.com/pf/go/32093/index.html

Could you post any photos to assist in an accurate ID (?)...

TTY,...

Ron

I have the wild type, next to impossible to get rid of. They are quite attractive when covering the cedar hedge in the back yard, but the things come up in the lawn. I think they are there just to drive my Mother insane......

Elliminator weed and grass killer kills purpureas and nils because I used it on them by accident one time and they died roots and all. Bindweed is a different story. Those are so bad with the long roots that using dynamite would simply help spread them all over your yard.

I agree with Garden2005 method to use grass, weed killer and/or weed them out. Also salt will do the trick too. I accidently spilled salt on some MG plants last year while trying to put salt on snails and killed off some of my plants too. I think anything that`s harmful for plants will work. Keep in mind there is no one solution and you can be creative and try this and that and decide what works best for you. TTYL.

Dee

This message was edited Jun 4, 2007 4:04 PM

Any herbicide that will kill MG's is likely to also kill other plants like the Sweet peas that were mentioned and that is why I said that there is no herbicide specific for MG's...

Ron

Thank You all for the good advice.
I planted some MG seeds about 5 years ago and it has been a night mare since trying to get rid of them. I used roundup and I am still getting seedlings. I pull them out and I get more back!
Because I love my sweet peas so much I have to win the war with the morning glories . I will continue to pull them out until I can find a better method.Thanks again yall.

Dancinglady

I have that problem with cordatatriloba, it's trying to eat the neighborhood. I made a little shepherds crook out of a dowel and cup hook to grab the vines I can't reach which are twined through my hedge rose to pull them toward me and pulled off all of the flowers, buds and seed pods I could reach. I plan to do the same this year and hopefully, some day I'll get the swarm under control.

X

Right, the fact that the weedkiller will kill the wanted plants is the reason for handing pulling around those and in spaces around them 2 feet or so away(if they are all over the place) then you should be able to apply a weed killer such as Elliminator since it is made for use in flower beds and vegetable gardens. It will not wash over and harm your veggies or flowers but it will destroy just about any tough foilage or grasses you do not want. It also breaks down into natural elements within 7 days so it will not poison or harm your soil for future use. You do have to be careful and use it when the weather is calm and it is still with no wind outside to avoid drift. I have used a piece of plywood to avoid drift to my other plants and it worked fine.

If you want to only kill the morning glories and protect your lawn then a broadleaf weedkiller made for lawns applied as directed will knock the purpures and nils out without killing your grass.

There is as stated no long term solution for the bindweed because they come back from roots. If there is a long term solution then I want to know about it.

This message was edited Jun 4, 2007 9:04 AM

dancinglady - If there is some way that you could post a photo of the leaves of the 'MG's' that you are having difficulty removing I would be very interested to see the leaves...

The annual MG cannot come back unless they are going to flower and re-seeding,but the more invasive types like the perennial Calystegias and Convolvulus that spread by underground rhizomes commonly invade gardens and could easily be mistaken for a annual unless you are very familiar with the differences that may appear as subtle to a gardener not specifically focused on this group of plants...

TTY,...

Ron