Bindweed

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Anyone have any foolproof method of eradicating this PITA weed??

If only my tomatoes grew as well as this

My garden was horribly neglected by precious owners too.. we had a huge area of bamboo which has invaded borders, lawn and neighbours, we have ivy all over the place, bramble, laurel and acacia that reseed all over the place and when I clear something the space is filled by a host of other blasted weeds.. bindweed, other vining plants and a procession of other things. Aarrgghh!!

I help manage a "local nature area". One of our volunteers asked me "what is that beautiful white bell flower down by the lower pond?". It took me some questioning before I realised he meant the masses of bindweed that was in full flower.

There is a variety of it in the wild that has pink flowers rather than white - so the colour of the little field bindweed with all the vigour, large flowers and impact of the hedge bindweed, which is the one we're talking about.

I've nearly eradicated the bindweed after 4years living here. The ground elder is nearly gone too. Hard work as I do not use chemicals.

Went out 2 days ago to check the veg. Fat hen poking through. FFS. Where has that come from?

We dug over a neglected patch earlier this year prior to turfing and pulled out what felt like miles and miles of the horrible white fleshy bindweed roots, it was everywhere. So far hasn't come through the new turf but has popped up at the sides so just pulling and pulling. I also in other spots pour boiling water over new shoots but have accepted that it will be an annual battle unless I rip out whatever it is growing through as well.

It is so pretty ... but such an assassin 😡 (it's the Villanelle of weeds!) we - well DH - dug and dug and dug, then poured boiling water in the holes.

That was at the beginning of lockdown and it's not come back - yet!

We had the national Collection of bindweed on our allotment a couple of years ago. We’ll never get rid of it completely - it’s under the paths, greenhouse, shed etc. We tried weed killer which worked to some extent but there was just too much of it.

We then tried just digging it out whenever we saw it and that’s been really effective. We have a blitz on it in March and April too, when the ground is warming up, and the roots ease out better, before it flowers and starts going mad.