Planted a wildflower mix and was unsure if this was a weed or part of the seed mix.
by daboss4444
Planted a wildflower mix and was unsure if this was a weed or part of the seed mix.
by daboss4444
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That looks like field bindweed to me. You do not want this stuff.
Bindweed
Field bindweed. As a person who has, until this week, refrained from using herbicide— in your shoes, I’d use the herbicide NOW. Bindweed has converted me from a “never herbicide” person to a “harm reduction” person. I’m going to sound like fanatical here, but you can look at my profile to see the size of the bindweed infestation I’m dealing with because I let it get away from me last summer.
Do not pull. It can regrow from 1/4 inch of root fragment and the stringy, fragile roots will go down 20 feet once established. Do not let it go to seed. The flowers are short lived and the dropped seeds can survive in the soil for 50 years until conditions are right again. Do not dig in the plot and then use the shovel elsewhere, you will spread it. Those vines will take over a 10×10 plot by the end of the summer if you let them, drop seeds, and you’ll have nothing but bindweed next year. They will climb every other plant and choke them out, it will get into the grass, solarizing will not work, mulching will not work.
Find every sprig of bindweed on your property, including the grass, spray it now, and check throughout the summer for regrowth. Then plant densely so it has less sunlight and territory next year.