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Martin Brown writes:
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| It must be very dependent on the soil then. In my heavy clay soil I can
| afford to let the lesser field bindweed with pink flowers grow as an
| ornamental. It never causes trouble unlike its vigorous white climbinfg
| cousin.

That is almost certainly so. My soil doesn't waterlog, even 2' down.

| Yes, you have to dig as much out as you can, dig out the little
| bits as they show during the growing season, and repeat it all next
| spring. But that's more-or-less it.
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| In clay soil groundelder is considerably more of a pest.

Because you can't get its roots out semi-intact when digging? That
would make a lot of sense. I can't dig it out cleanly in wet soil.

I should have specified my conditions :-(


Regards,
Nick Maclaren.