Garden designer Ish shared his top tips for getting rid of bindweed in your garden – and it involves using a sandwich bag
Garden designer Ish shared his top tips for getting rid of bindweed in your garden – and it involves using a sandwich bag(Image: claudiodivizia via Getty Images)
A gardening guru has revealed how to eliminate troublesome and destructive weeds whilst protecting your cherished plants. Ish, a garden designer and TikTok content creator, shared his unconventional technique involving a sandwich bag, which can effectively dehydrate and smother problematic bindweed, reports the Express.
Bindweed is a perennial species that can develop into a relentless issue in gardens. The plant is identifiable by its elongated twisting stems and prominent white trumpet-shaped blooms.
It has the capacity to develop into an extensive mass of greenery, strangling garden specimens, hampering their development or completely destroying smaller varieties. The Royal Horticultural Society states that bindweed will vie with other specimens for water, nutrients, space and illumination.
Clump the weeds together and place into a sandwich bag, before spraying some weed killer inside(Image: Getty)How to remove bindweed with a sandwich bag
Ish detailed that he prevents his bindweed from “going mad” by densely populating his garden borders. This approach helps minimise the sunlight reaching the earth and decelerates bindweed development.
Nevertheless, should you discover that the bindweed in your plot has become extensive, you can halt it – though Ish cautioned that “extreme measures” might be required. Initially, attempt to uncoil the bindweed without extracting it from the earth, gathering it into a cluster.
Avoid severing the weeds from the primary stem. Collect the clustered weeds together and insert them into a sandwich bag.
Should you locate the bindweed’s tip, give it a squeeze to leave the end visible.
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Subsequently, apply a natural or commercially available weed killer into the bag, before closing the bag completely. Ish explained: “As a result, all the chemicals that you don’t want on your plants are contained in this bag and on the bindweed. It will slowly work its way down to this and to the root, and as a result, keeps these nice and safe, and these a little less so.”
This technique can also be applied to bindweed growing on box hedges. Regarding weed killers, Ish suggested using a natural concoction made from water, salt, and white vinegar.
While this mixture will significantly dehydrate the plant, it won’t “finish off the root”, he cautioned. Some natural weed killers may eradicate the root, but it’s important to seek out those that break down microorganisms in the soil.
Ish added: “If you do go for a natural one and you dehydrate this, because it is so compact down there, it will actually stop and slow its growth massively. So it doesn’t really matter which one you use, just do the one that’s right for your garden.”
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