This weed has been spreading quite fast in my garden and I’m a bit worried this might be something difficult to get rid of. Hopefully it’s nothing like Japanese Knotweed.
It wraps around other plants as well which is problematic.
Of course we do, it’s bindweed. Does any gardener not have to deal with bindweed on a near daily basis?
Ok_Zucchini_7975
Bindweed. My neighbour’s garden is full of it and it keeps sneaking it’s way back into mine and tangling it’s snaky little tendrils around everything. It’s really annoying 😂
wascallywabbit666
Seems like half the posts in this sub are about bindweed and horsetail.
NinjaGrimlock
It’s bindweed – pull it up, as much as you can, and don’t drop any bits while doing it.
FrostyBallBag
I have this! I didn’t focus on the plants at the front I swear for like 1 week and this came back. It wraps itself around plants and traverses over to the next one, wrapping itself down that one. Nightmare!
Miserable-Print-1568
Bind weed you’ll never get rid of the stuff my grandads been trying for 40 years now 🤣
ishashar
you have been cursed by bindweed. burn down your garden and your neighbours and your neighbour’s neighbours.
I’m in a 6 year battle with it and with the weather being so unpredictable this year its swallowed about 2/3rds now.
torroo
Bindweed. Welcome to hell!
sc00022
Bindweed. Bain of my life. I tear it all up but every month it seems to come back.
Independent_Dust3004
You need to untangle it from whatever it is wrapped around.
Lay it out on a plastic bag and spray the leaves with a glycosulphate based weedkiller. Make sure you don’t spray it on anything you don’t want to kill.
Let it die and then remove being careful to not drop bits everywhere.
It’s a shame it’s such a pest because the flowers are lovely! But that’s how we got in this mess!
Hob0Magnet
If you can’t pull up the root, the only other means I’ve found works is to stuff as much of the coil, leaves especially into a plastic bag and spray it with a good dose of weedkiller, make sure the bag is well tied around the plant too and doesn’t hit any surrounding plants.
Bear in mind that this is a slow enough process as the poison will work it’s way through the stem down to the root itself.
IndicationSorry4394
Ivy is my guess and if so you have already lost a few quid in house value.
AdneyNorthWest
Isn’t it ivy, ? Or is that a lesser problem? Hate the stuff, apart from Bees liking the flowers
DrGreenThunnb
Glyphosate straight, pour directly onto it and under your fence base panel. Will wipe it out and anything else in the area of annoyance
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Looks like bindweed to me
Yes that’s bindweed.
Of course we do, it’s bindweed. Does any gardener not have to deal with bindweed on a near daily basis?
Bindweed. My neighbour’s garden is full of it and it keeps sneaking it’s way back into mine and tangling it’s snaky little tendrils around everything. It’s really annoying 😂
Seems like half the posts in this sub are about bindweed and horsetail.
It’s bindweed – pull it up, as much as you can, and don’t drop any bits while doing it.
I have this! I didn’t focus on the plants at the front I swear for like 1 week and this came back. It wraps itself around plants and traverses over to the next one, wrapping itself down that one. Nightmare!
Bind weed you’ll never get rid of the stuff my grandads been trying for 40 years now 🤣
you have been cursed by bindweed. burn down your garden and your neighbours and your neighbour’s neighbours.
I’m in a 6 year battle with it and with the weather being so unpredictable this year its swallowed about 2/3rds now.
Bindweed. Welcome to hell!
Bindweed. Bain of my life. I tear it all up but every month it seems to come back.
You need to untangle it from whatever it is wrapped around.
Lay it out on a plastic bag and spray the leaves with a glycosulphate based weedkiller. Make sure you don’t spray it on anything you don’t want to kill.
Let it die and then remove being careful to not drop bits everywhere.
It’s a shame it’s such a pest because the flowers are lovely! But that’s how we got in this mess!
If you can’t pull up the root, the only other means I’ve found works is to stuff as much of the coil, leaves especially into a plastic bag and spray it with a good dose of weedkiller, make sure the bag is well tied around the plant too and doesn’t hit any surrounding plants.
Bear in mind that this is a slow enough process as the poison will work it’s way through the stem down to the root itself.
Ivy is my guess and if so you have already lost a few quid in house value.
Isn’t it ivy, ? Or is that a lesser problem? Hate the stuff, apart from Bees liking the flowers
Glyphosate straight, pour directly onto it and under your fence base panel. Will wipe it out and anything else in the area of annoyance