Is this bindweed or... knotweed?

[HanPanPeg]

It’s at the back of overgrown garden, there are no flowers, it’s stalks aren’t woody and it does seem to be growing up other plants.

Hope the photos work! Thank you!

looks like bind weed to me, are there an white flowers?

Bindweed.

Dig it out what you can, repeat.

Bindweed, difficult to get rid of but much easier than knotweed.

Bindweed,

Dig (the roots are white and fleshy, and snap easily. Try to get out everything that you can).

Repeat frequently. If you can, identify new shoots as soon as they emerge and use them to find any lurking bits of root in already-dug areas.

Bindweed. Japanese knotweed (there are other knotweeds) starts by coming through as a cane, and unfolds its leaves later. And it never creeps. You can see that this is a climber - in the first picture there's two climbing stems at the back trying to climb up each other.

Thanks everyone, that’s a relief! Once I started taking it down / untangling it - I found absolutely loads of the stuff!

When you pull it up, make sure you don't compost it. Put it all in the garden waste bin so that you can get rid of it completely.

Definitely not knotweed, knotweed comes out of the ground straight up, like spikes of doom and keeps on growing and growing and growing until it takes over the world ...... (had it once, only way to get rid was to move cities )
Knotweed has very strong, hollow bamboo-like stalks.

You need to be really persistent with bindweed and in the end I did have to use weedkiller as more kept coming through from next door.

I used to unwind it with breaking if I could then put it in a bag again without breaking the stems. Then spray the glyphosate into the bag along with some kitchen roll to keep it damp and put a stone on it to stop it blowing away and prevent the weedkiller getting on anything else. Add more weedkiller every couple of days until it is all dead. Repeat with any other shoots. This way the weedkiller gets to the roots and kills it off totally. Eventually every bit of bindweed next door was killed too.

Sorry to jump on the thread, but @Khione did you manage to get rid of next door's bindweed without actually treating their garden? I ask because we have loads of this stuff coming through our back fence which is onto a railway line. I can only treat what comes through on my side!

It used to be called convolvulus

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Sorry to jump on the thread, but *@Khione* did you manage to get rid of next door's bindweed without actually treating their garden? I ask because we have loads of this stuff coming through our back fence which is onto a railway line. I can only treat what comes through on my side!

Yes - it took a few years but every time some came through I treated as above. I think because the plant was kept damp with the weedkiller it was able to get right back to the roots. Eventually, every plant that was growing next door had put some tendrils through to my garden and got zapped so it eventually died out.

That was a few years ago now and it has never come back. You have to be careful to get as much as possible in the bag without snapping it. Any that does snap off must be binned not composted

It used to be called convolvulus It used to be, but botanically it's a Calystegia. It's the little pink and white field bindweed which is Convolvulus arvensis (related to the Convolvulus cneorum which is a popular garden plant), so it's preferable to call it bindweed.

Other confusions are the pot "geraniums" (actually Pelargonium), nasturtiums (Tropaeolum - Nasturtium officinale was watercress), syringa as used for Mock-orange, Philadelphus (Syringa is lilac)

Any that does snap off must be binned not composted The green stuff doesn't root. It's the bits of white stem and root that will root in the compost.

It was quite common when I was a child in South London. If you squeeze the base of the flower it pops up.