New house, new garden, new problems.

Lovely herbaceous border, lots of nice plants etc.

Full of bindweed, creeping buttercup and a tall weed with white 'lacy' flowers?

I rewally don't have space to lift the plants and deal with an 'empty' flowerbed. Am pulling as much as I can find by hand and planted in some canes for the stuff to wrap itself round.

Any other suggestions?

Thanks

I really hate to say it, but in the end the best thing is to mark the plant you want to keep, and in the winter dig out the whole bed. remove the weeds and then replant the desirable plants. There really is no other way to deal with permanent weeds without a lot of hassle and using vicious weedkillers.

Re bindweed.

I have success in flowerbeds by teasing the bindweed into a clump away from
a plant,
dropping over a large plastic bottle (with top & bottom cut off)
and spray with glyphosphate

Regards

Colin

"wind'n'stone" wrote in message
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New house, new garden, new problems.

Lovely herbaceous border, lots of nice plants etc.

Full of bindweed, creeping buttercup and a tall weed with white 'lacy'
flowers?

I rewally don't have space to lift the plants and deal with an 'empty'
flowerbed. Am pulling as much as I can find by hand and planted in some
canes for the stuff to wrap itself round.

Any other suggestions?

Thanks




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Thanks guys - will see how it goes.

Colin's suggestion seems to be the most successful going by a googled
search last year. Wish I'd gone with it then. Digging and constantly
pulling up only encourages it to try harder I think Plus there's
almost certainly a large undergound reserve of it where you can't get
at eg neighbours, under lawn.

On Tue, 5 Aug 2008 09:08:27 +0100, "Colin Jackson"
cojack6ATbtinternetDOTcom wrote:

Re bindweed.

I have success in flowerbeds by teasing the bindweed into a clump away from
a plant,
dropping over a large plastic bottle (with top & bottom cut off)
and spray with glyphosphate

Regards

Colin

"wind'n'stone" wrote in message
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New house, new garden, new problems.

Lovely herbaceous border, lots of nice plants etc.

Full of bindweed, creeping buttercup and a tall weed with white 'lacy'
flowers?

I rewally don't have space to lift the plants and deal with an 'empty'
flowerbed. Am pulling as much as I can find by hand and planted in some
canes for the stuff to wrap itself round.

Any other suggestions?

Thanks




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wind'n'stone

On Sat, 20 Sep 2008 23:17:38 +0100, Janet Conroy
wrote and included this (or
some of this):


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"wind'n'stone" wrote in message
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New house, new garden, new problems.

Lovely herbaceous border, lots of nice plants etc.

Full of bindweed, creeping buttercup and a tall weed with white
'lacy'
flowers?

I rewally don't have space to lift the plants and deal with an
'empty'
flowerbed. Am pulling as much as I can find by hand and planted in
some
canes for the stuff to wrap itself round.

Any other suggestions?

Snooker

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"wind'n'stone" wrote in message
...

New house, new garden, new problems.

Lovely herbaceous border, lots of nice plants etc.

Full of bindweed, creeping buttercup and a tall weed with white 'lacy'
flowers?

I rewally don't have space to lift the plants and deal with an 'empty'
flowerbed. Am pulling as much as I can find by hand and planted in some
canes for the stuff to wrap itself round.

Any other suggestions?

Thanks




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The "tall weed with lacy flowers" is the dreaded ground elder. I too gained a beautiful garden when we moved last year, also full of the same weeds. Ground elder is the worst. I just keep digging it out and then spraying the regrowth with Roundup where I can. When it's really mixed up with perennials, I have dug them up and then dug out the ground elder. In some places I've just bitten the bullet and sprayed it even if some goes on things I don't want to lose, as long as I have convinced myself that there is some more elsewhere in the garden and/or I can live without it.

"wind'n'stone" wrote in message
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New house, new garden, new problems.

Lovely herbaceous border, lots of nice plants etc.

Full of bindweed, creeping buttercup and a tall weed with white 'lacy'
flowers?

I rewally don't have space to lift the plants and deal with an 'empty'
flowerbed. Am pulling as much as I can find by hand and planted in some
canes for the stuff to wrap itself round.

Any other suggestions?

Thanks




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