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Alee
True Blue Farmgirl
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Alee
Worland
Wy
USA
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 Posted - Jul 02 2008 : 7:28:42 PM
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Oh My!
My poor neglected rental garden. The roses are being choked out and I think the weeds are laughing at me since I haven't been out there for a few days. I filled up half of a round dumpster with yard waste that was either growing (the weeds) or dead rose canes that someone clipped but never hauled away.
Other than the "pull till they give up and die" method and the "put enough layers of cardboard down till they choke out and die" method, anyone have any success at killing stranglevine? It's the wild morning glory relative that is absolutely hideously invasive. Pretty, but destructive. Vinegar is working great on the Common Mallow. I just poured some on straight.
Alee
Farmgirl Sister #8
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KYgurlsrbest
True Blue Farmgirl
4853 Posts
Jonni
Elsmere
Kentucky
USA
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Posted - Jul 03 2008 : 05:51:44 AM
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We call it bindweed here, Alee. I have been pulling it for 8 years. So, no. :) It seems the more I pull it, the more it comes back, and I always try to make sure to the get the root, but, as you know, it's trailing underground, so there's always more....
Good luck--I just go out after a rain and get going on it!!!
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NY Newsday sportswriter Bill Nack describing filly, Ruffian.
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Alee
True Blue Farmgirl
22941 Posts
Alee
Worland
Wy
USA
22941 Posts |
Posted - Jul 03 2008 : 08:00:05 AM
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Ugh. We had that stuff in Idaho as well and it drove me BATTY! I guess I am going just have to try and pull a bit each day!
Alee
Farmgirl Sister #8
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emsmommy5
True Blue Farmgirl
1547 Posts
Angie
Buckley
WA
USA
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Posted - Jul 03 2008 : 6:56:13 PM
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We are totally infected with morning glory. The roots can go for miles it seems. I spoke with a master gardener around here and she said if you pull it, it just stimulates the root system and makes it worse. You can clip it at the base as the new starts come up, you can sterilize the soil, you can get a backhoe and strip the topsoil and put down new, or... you can move. Those are the options I have found to combat it.
It drives me BONKERS!!! There are places in my yard that I just let it climb and look like it is supposed to be there. Live with it or move. That's my motto. Because I sure don't have the time or energy to find every tiny little start and clip it. If I sterilize the soil, I'd have to kill every good thing in my yard.
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ddmashayekhi
True Blue Farmgirl
4742 Posts
Dawn
Naperville
Illinois
USA
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Posted - Jul 03 2008 : 7:58:51 PM
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We have bindweed here in IL. I volunteer at Morton Arboretum and the staff person in charge of our group is deliberately letting bindweed grow on stakes in one of the gardens. He is going to try different methods to see what is the most effective in killing it for good. I'll let you know what the results are when he's done experimenting.
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lisamarie508
True Blue Farmgirl
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Lisa
Idaho City
ID
USA
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Posted - Jul 05 2008 : 3:19:41 PM
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Bindweed is rampant here, too. I couldn't fight it in a regular garden, so I had to build raised beds on top of a heavy weed fabric. I spray the ones that come out of my rock wall with vinegar and it will slow them down and kill it off for a little while. But the grass also turns brown and the vinegar treatment only last a few weeks. You know that crazy gardening guy in WA, I think his name is Cisco or something? He said you have to be consistent in spraying the bindweed with vinegar (every time it pokes it's head above the soil) and after a few years it will finally give up.
Farmgirl Sister #35
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