What Is an Effective, Earth-Friendly Way to Get Rid of Bindweed Growing Among Flowers?
Pulling the bindweed,aka devil gut aka morning glory (not much glory about it), might slow it down, but i can’t get enough of the root to kill it completely. Has anyone had success in ridding a flower bed of bindweed?
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paint using a small artist brush a few of the leafs near the stalk base with roundup
Devil weed is the least toxic name I’ve heard. The ones I use are not suitable here. Realize you are fighting something with roots that can go 40′ and any root breakage just means the plant will grow back. That’s the problem with perennial weeds, you gotta get everything!! Above answer is about right, you have to paint, sponge or some way get the Roundup on the bindweed without touching adjoining plants. Timing is also important. The bindweed should be "mature" that is not in early season growth, but rather in flowering stage.
I tried growing dense groundcover hoping to choke out the bindweed…….nope. I did better with dense taller plants, but it wasn’t a flower garden……it was a green manure crop in the vegetable garden. Several crops of very dense green manure (buckwheat for example) greatly cut back the bindweed. But the minute I started growing vegetable or flowers and area were open, the bindweed found it’s way back in.