Chemical warfare against bindweed... recommendations?

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We have moved to a house with a big garden. And it is riddled with bindweed all down one side. Also stinging nettles and brambles.

If there is nothing worth saving, so you can use as vile a product as you can lay hands on, what might be worth trying?

Anything with a high content of Glyphosate so something like Bayer Super Strength Glyphosate.

I can't spray bindweed as is usually all wound round my Japanese Anenomes.
It has just appeared before the JA and been trying to pull it out unsuccessfully with roots attached. Same with brambles, they can't be killed and just like the immortal IVY.

I've killed nettles, but they seem to come back next year.
Sorry to be so negative.

Get some canes and encourage the bind weed up then. Then you can spray it.

Also dig out as much of the roots as you can but be careful about fragments and dispose of it, don't compost.

As soon as you see any growth, pull it up and dig out as much as you can. Keep doing it again and again. That's how I've kept our bindweed down - it hasn't gone as mad after doing that.

I successfully exterminated it one area whee there were no other plants with glyphosate in our former and future vegetable patch where there were no other plants

I'm fighting the good fight in the flower beds. I've read that you can grow it into little pots filled with glyphosate, train them in as it were. I'm hoping this'll help

I HATE bloody bindweed

It has pretty flowers, learn to love it, because like it or not bindweed is there to stay. Nettles and brambles will give up if you stim them to the ground and dig up their roots, bindweed doesn't care.

I have never tried this with bindweed but it worked on bramble. i put the trailing end of it in a saucer of Glyphosate and left it. It killed the bramble which was trailing over next doors fence and into my wisteria.

Roundup has never touched my bindweed. But alternating tumbleweed and weedol seems to have done the trick on mine.

The saucer idea sounds good.

I had some success in my last garden with pulling it out but you have to do it repeatedly. After two years I was getting a lot less of it. I had a routine weekly and it was hard work, and I barely passed any without pulling it.

I have been told that it's more effective to treat bindweed later in the year as it takes more down into the root from more leaves. However, don't see any reason why you couldn't do it twice! It's a bugger.

I just pull it all out, repeatedly, wherever I see it and it never eliminates it but keeps it at a reasonable level. I find it quite satisfying pulling great long streamers of it out of my shrubs. I have read a tip which is to cut the bottom off a lemonade bottle, push some strands in through the op to fill up the bottle and then spray glyphosate inside that, the bottle shields surrounding plants. I have also tried the glyphosate gel in a push up thing, but find it a bit fiddly and not very effective.

Brambles are my pet hate, we get them everywhere and they are so vigorous. We get a good crop of blackberries from them though.

I untangle it from wherever it's growing, stuff it into a plastic bag, spray and then tie up the bag for a few days. It makes sure the glyphosate doesn't get washed off. It also seems to help if you bash the leaves a bit, as they take in more of the stuff if they are bruised.

Not really linked, but Sainsbury's currently has offers on weedkiller. I bought some from Homebase this morning, and later found it much cheaper in Sainsbury's. I had bought Roundup to attack ground elder, but can't start until it is drier.

I am treating my ground elder with resolva 24 which are 2 for £7 in wilkos at the moment. Do far i have used 4 bottles of the stuff and the battle goes on but it is working.

My Dad always digs it up but you have to remove every last tiny trace - he says if that doesn't work put the weedkiller in a jam jar and then stuff the trailing bits of bindweed into it (does that make sense?!) Works best when it's growing most vigorously.

a flame weeder?
after clearing most of it obviously, you don't want to burn your neighbourhood down.

we have a little in the flowerbed which I just take out as much as possible.
there are bits in the lawn, but am not sure if they are bindweed or another plant with heart shaped leaves.