On 22/4/08 16:03, in article ,
"Mary Fisher" wrote:


"Baal" wrote in message
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Dear NG,

Last year I cut back a shrub with a mature diameter of 10 feet right down
to the core! It was infested with bindweed and had outgrown its site. It
is now a happy healthy stump but the bindweed is rearing its ugly head
again! What is a good weedkiller that will kill bindweed, not the shrub
and not the grass (the latter not too much of a prob as there is no grass
growing in 5ft radius)?

Went into my local DIY/Garden Centre and failed to be convinced by what I
read off the labels.

I would appreciate the benefit of your experience.

My opinion is that it isn't ugly, if it were a rare plant we'd all want it.

It's a very beautiful plant. The problem is that like Ipomoea in hot
countries like Greece, it is a menace. We nurture and encourage and hover
over Ipomoeas in UK but there it rampages over building sites and smothers
other plants or old sheds and is a pest.

My experience is that when we moved here forty odd years ago the fence on
one side of the garden was covered with bindweed. I pulled it up manually
for about two years and it stopped growing.


Every single piece of root turns into a new plant so two years would be good
going indeed.

--
Sacha
http://www.hillhousenursery.co.uk
South Devon
'We do not inherit the earth from our ancestors, we borrow it from our
children.'