Is there any part of a bindweed that can be safely composted or can it
reproduce from any part of the plant?

Geoff Lane

Can't resist it: if you leave stuff like that to dry out in the sun before
composting there's no problem.

Regards from Paris or thereabouts


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Is there any part of a bindweed that can be safely composted or can it
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lee.christopher wrote:
Can't resist it: if you leave stuff like that to dry out in the sun before
composting there's no problem.

I have masses of both the common species, and compost both roots
and stems without drying them out. They have not caused any trouble
in 25 years.


Regards,
Nick Maclaren.

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I bung it all on - roots and all.

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Is there any part of a bindweed that can be safely composted or can it
reproduce from any part of the plant?

It's only the roots you need worry about. And, I suppose, the seeds if
they are ripe. The rest can be composted with no problem.
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lee.christopher wrote:

Can't resist it: if you leave stuff like that to dry out in the sun before
composting there's no problem.

I have masses of both the common species, and compost both roots
and stems without drying them out. They have not caused any trouble
in 25 years.

How do you work that out. If you have masses of both they are a
continual problem. Though I have to admit that I quite like the pink
field bindweed that has never given me any problems on heavy clay, and I
let the white form grow in the wild hedges. I let bindweed dry in the
sun before composting - the same with ground elder and thistles.

Regards,
Martin Brown

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Can't resist it: if you leave stuff like that to dry out in the sun
before composting there's no problem.

Regards from Paris or thereabouts


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Is there any part of a bindweed that can be safely composted or can it
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Geoff Lane



Have you been in any past Hammer films? ;O)

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Martin Brown wrote:

I have masses of both the common species, and compost both roots
and stems without drying them out. They have not caused any trouble
in 25 years.

How do you work that out. If you have masses of both they are a
continual problem. Though I have to admit that I quite like the pink
field bindweed that has never given me any problems on heavy clay, and I
let the white form grow in the wild hedges. I let bindweed dry in the
sun before composting - the same with ground elder and thistles.

Eh? Why should I have to work it out?

Neither have ever given me any problem IN THE COMPOST HEAP, but both
are a pain in the arse in the garden. The same applies to ground
elder and thistles, which I also have (though few of the latter).
The requirement to dry them out before composting is based on an
old wife's tale, though doing so does no harm.


Regards,
Nick Maclaren.

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Is there any part of a bindweed that can be safely composted or can it
reproduce from any part of the plant?

Geoff Lane

Bob Flowerdew said he puts bindweed, dandelion roots etc in a tub or
water and lets them rot. I think he said the Romans used to do it!

Pam in Bristol

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Is there any part of a bindweed that can be safely composted or can it
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Geoff Lane

Bob Flowerdew said he puts bindweed, dandelion roots etc in a tub or
water and lets them rot. I think he said the Romans used to do it!

The Romans used to do a lot of strange things, and one of them resulted
in the adage - "got hold of the wrong end of the stick..."

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The Romans used to do a lot of strange things, and one of them resulted
in the adage - "got hold of the wrong end of the stick..."

Go on. You have to tell, now.

Janet

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The Romans used to do a lot of strange things, and one of them resulted
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Go on. You have to tell, now.

Janet

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The Romans used to do a lot of strange things, and one of them resulted
in the adage - "got hold of the wrong end of the stick..."

Go on. You have to tell, now.

Even Bronco and Izal hadn't been invented, and the Romans used a small
sponge, wetted, on the end of a stick...

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The Romans used to do a lot of strange things, and one of them resulted
in the adage - "got hold of the wrong end of the stick..."

Go on. You have to tell, now.

Even Bronco and Izal hadn't been invented, and the Romans used a small
sponge, wetted, on the end of a stick...

Yup. Just as I thought....... ;-)
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Is there any part of a bindweed that can be safely composted or can it
reproduce from any part of the plant?

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I compost everything but never ever bindweed