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Hi can anybody help me as i can not get rid of the stuff. its all under the patio,in my greenhouse and in all the hedges. I've tried lots of diferent weedkillers but none work, i have been told to use vinegar in a spray bottle is there somthing that should be mixed with it. any advice will be greatfully recieved. posting.php?mode=post&f=9#

Glysophate, such as Roundup, and patience, over several years is the only answer.
You will always have some regrowth but if treated quickly you can keep it well under control. Make sure you have plenty of leafy growth to treat, it will work better.

Beryl.

Welcome Roger Rabbit.
I agree with Beryl, glyphosate is the only effective method as far as I know. Be vigilant and persistent!

Beryl & pongeroon thanks i have used Round up and Tree root killer on it. It keeps cuming back. Im at present building raised bed to raise some veg and im worried that the bindweed will over take this and spoil my crops.

There's no quick fix RR just keep at it.
Best of luck
Beryl.

You could lay a double layer of thick cardboard before filling your raised beds with soil, that would stop the bindweed growing through, for six months to a year hopefully it will die off in that time.

Any individual Bindweed root could be up to eight feet long, so provided you keep "dosing" each shoot that appears you will, eventually, win.

Lizze I think laid out a good method, when you find a little shoot give it a cane to grow up, even secure it to the cane to get it started, nurture it until it has a good load of leaves, then using a paintbrush and a jar of made-up(appropriately diluted) Glyphosate carefully paint the nice healthy shoot.

More leaves equals more absorbtion of the weedkiller, careful painting equals only the bindweed gets it.

Training the shoot with some "slack" between soil and cane will allow you to pull out the cane and lie it on a sacrificial surface, such as an old tray, or cardboard for the act of painting.

Remember to use good waterproof chemical resistant gloves.

On the downside if the hedge is infested, then shoots will try to invade your garden from it, just kill em.

NB, from direct experience over a year under cover will only weaken bindweed a bit, its a waste of time and if under a bed will just cause the roots to rummage around to find a way up.
I found an entire dinnerplate of bindweed spagetti under a cold water tank I use to shield bags of topsoil from the foxes attentions. It had come up under the bags thend branched out in several directions before coming up round the edges and exploring the dark dank void.
Chemicals, or long careful excavations of every trace of snap-prone roots are the only two methods that work. I use one an old boy of my aquaintance use the other and they both work with the caveat that you never entirely get rid of it.

Very good advice Peter.

Beryl.

Thank you all for the great advice. Iwill take all on board, Regards Rog