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.

--

Baal

I smile and go off waving
(Amiably) - for that's my way

http://www.helden.org.uk


** Posted from http://www.teranews.com **

Baal wrote:

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.

Try Tumbleweed when it is growing vigorously - gather up the stems and
tie them into a plastic bag containing the solution - you may need to
repeat this as it is a persistent ba****d

Malcolm

On 21 Apr, 23:12, Malcolm Race wrote:
Baal wrote:
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.

Try Tumbleweed when it is growing vigorously - gather up the stems and
tie them into a plastic bag containing the solution - you may need to
repeat this as it is a persistent ba****d

Malcolm

Malcolm!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! That is patented, it's the
Judith Lea method!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Judith

"Baal" wrote
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.

There is a weedkiller on the market that is a thick paste which you brush
on, can't remember the name but it's widely available, it gets down into the
roots and kills the whole plant (as long as you don't clear away the dying
top growth too soon)

--
Regards
Bob Hobden

On 22 Apr, 00:02, "Bob Hobden" wrote:
"Baal" wrote 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.

There is a weedkiller on the market that is a thick paste which you brush
on, can't remember the name but it's widely available, it gets down into the
roots and kills the whole plant (as long as you don't clear away the dying
top growth too soon)

--
Regards
Bob Hobden

Tumbleweed gel.

Judith

On 22 Apr, 09:20, AriesVal wrote:
On Mon, 21 Apr 2008 16:16:54 -0700 (PDT), Judith in France wrote:
On 22 Apr, 00:02, "Bob Hobden" wrote:
[20 quoted lines suppressed]

Tumbleweed gel.

Judith

thanks Judith, I didn't know of that before
--
Beautiful young people are accidents of nature,
But beautiful old people are works of art.http://www.copelands.plus.com/val/

You're welcome Val. Did you have a great time in Italy and did you
bring home some tomato seeds?

Judith

"Baal" wrote in message
...
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.

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.

Mary

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


"Baal" wrote in message
...
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.'