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Post by Joseph Lofthouse on Mar 14, 2012 22:53:52 GMT -5
I likewise find bindweed to be a difficult weed: Much more
difficult than Johnson's grass, but it's quite
manageable for me... It's easy to pull, the roots are easy
to slice, it's not all that vigorous. The thing that it's got going
for it though is that it's relentless, it just keeps coming back,
so to get ahead of it I till, and then the next day I walk through
the field and chop off anything that the tiller didn't cut, then a
week later I walk through the field again and slice off anything
that has sprouted... And then along about July when the weather
gets hot and dry bindweed pretty much stops growing, but the
stems get more fibrous. I can't ever eliminate it, but I can sure
slow it down by consistent weeding, especially if I let a patch lie
fallow for a month.
My sister eliminated bindweed from her garden by solarizing.
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Post by steev on Mar 14, 2012 23:43:18 GMT -5
I get bindweed on the farm, but it's not much of a problem for me because I pull it up as much as I can; that's the one weed I never put off yanking out.
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Post by blueadzuki on Mar 15, 2012 12:12:11 GMT -5
my work with weed seeds means I bump into LOTs of bindweeds (for the purposes of this message, I'm going to use bindweed to refer to ALL Convululacae, as there are some I have whose actually genus and species I do not know) They run the gamut from the little hyper-wimpy species I plant on purpose becuse I like the flowers (yellow with black throats look like those on a husk tomato) and it's easy to conthrol (it grows slowly, and has no tendrils to climb on anything) to the nightmare that is cottonleaf bindweed (hyper invasive, super fast growing, covered with rough scratcy hair and no actuall flowers (it just makes lumps that make seeds). Lucy for me all my test growths were done in big pots, so I was able to check any out of control one before it got out of hand.
That reminds me, I probably have a little Calystega sepium seed, if anyone want's it. the Cottonleaf seed make up the vast bulk of bindweed seed I find, and morning glory (Imponomea tricolor or purprea) make up most of what is left, but I do find a calystega seed from time to time. And since mine comes from China, it's probably far closer gentically to the Korean than the sepium in Norway. if anyone wants it, let me know.
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Post by castanea on Mar 15, 2012 19:51:16 GMT -5
I have a very wimpy little bindweed on my property that grows in this area. It has cute little white flowers and although it probably throws a lot of seeds most don't germinate and those that do are easy to kill if you are so inclined. The real problems here are bermuda grass and star thistle. The onlty thing that takes care of our bermuda grass is to bury it under 6-8 inches of concrete. If you solarize it, the tops die back and then it resprouts from the roots with no competition at all because the solarizing did kill everything else.
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