Bindweed. Don’t let it go unchecked as it will spread quickly. It will strangle and stunt growth on surrounding plants. Glyphosate/ Round up should sort it
Binder weed. It’s a twat.
Bindweed
Bindweed and it gets everywhere and strangles everything.
It is indeed bindweed. Some cheap weedkiller from home bargains or somewhere that has a small amount of glyphosate in it will kill what’s coming under your fence. Don’t let it get on your other plants, though.
And it’s going to keep coming relentlessly, unfortunately. You get winters off from killing it back, though.
Don’t go using poison.
It’s convulvus to most people where I live but the main thing is to pull up every part of it and get rid of the dead stuff as quickly as possible. And keep doing that until you have got it all.
I have the same problem. Next door let it run rampant, and now it’s growing from my grass. Cannot seem to get rid of it.
My nemesis – BINDWEED. Good luck with your oncoming battle against this stuff, it’s awful.
I think the _official_ name for it is Fucking Bindweed. Pain in the arse.
The most satisfying thing to get rid of.
Don’t pull at the leaves, it’ll just come apart. Instead trace it back up the stalk as far as possible, snip it with your thumbnail and tug from that end. You’ll pull whole sheets out at once.
And in the meantime enjoy their silly little trumpet flowers. Cheeky thieving fuckers.
Pull as much as you can up, then find a main stem, spray a load of weed killer in to a carrier bag, and put the stem in it and tie the bag up.
The stem will carry the weed killer back to the roots and kill it without contaminating other plants – it’s laborious.
Spent about 4 years trying to get rid of this stuff by just pulling it up, constantly.
Really all I can describe it as is like the broom scene in Fantasia because it doesn’t actually go, the leaves just get smaller and smaller, and then if you happen to leave it too long you’re back where you started.
This year I gave in and put some (glyphosate) weedkiller on, and it’s all dead within a fortnight.
It’s a long thin panel designed to keep people out of your garden and to denote borders between properties, but that’s not important right now.
Bindweed is the perfect name for this “oh look I sprout pretty flowers but only for a day. Here, have a shit ton of roots that’ll get into your walls” twat of a plant.
I just spent my afternoon yesterday hacking it all up from my garden. You see it, you kill it. Don’t let it grow.
Bind weed will go if you persist in pulling it up but will take few seasons. Won’t go completely if it’s creeping from a neighbour but constantly pulling it up will keep it contained ime.
Once it gets out of hand like that can be a right pain the arse.
Granny, granny, pop out of bed!
As has been mentioned, it’s fucking bindweed. It’s an absolutely insidious bastard of a plant. One individual can be acres in size if allowed to grow unchecked, and the smallest piece of root left in the soil will regenerate into a new plant. My street is infested with the stuff. It took me several years to eradicate a Virginia creeper that the original owners of my house had planted…only for fucking bindweed to take over instead.
I’ve just pulled about a millionty miles of this fucker out of my garden.
Cool tip if you are an iPhone user (android may be the same but dunno). You can take a photo of a leaf, tree or plant, then open the photo, and tap the information icon at the bottom. Then ‘lookup plant’ and it will tell you what it is.
Also works with landmarks, birds and animals and probably lots of other things.
It’s taken 3 years to finally eradicate it from mother in laws garden… 3 long years. It strangles everything… I read somewhere though pumpkins strangle it back though. So, ever fancied a pumpkin patch?
Ask your neighbour if you can go dig it up, this will be the only way to get rid of it. You don’t have to go secretly poisoning everything.
I think the only way to be certain is to nuke it from orbit
Convolvulus, AKA Bindweed.
We had it all over our garden for years and it only went away after digging out all the roots.
If you want to be ecologically friendly and not kill all the wee beasties that are food sources for other wildlife
Mix salt and washing up liquid together, break stem at lowest point, and smother in the goop (leaving a small bag of it banded over the stem will kill it to the roots)
Glycoshphate and weedkillers are detrimental to wildlife and kill both directly and indirectly
Bees, ladybirds, beetles and butterflies are all the things we need for pollination. It is also toxic to earthworms, which we need for soil health and are also food for birds
When it flowers, you’ll think Far Cry 5.
But yeah, Bindweed.
Bindweed. Its a fucking cunt of a plant.
Grab as much of the leafy stuff as you can, and shove it in a bucket of extra diluted glyphosate weedkiller. I recommend Gallup, available on amazon.Half strength for grasses and light weeds, bindweed is susceptible to weedkiller, but the roots are extremely long.
You’ll need several buckets, fill with weedkiler solution, cover with a binbag and leave it for a few weeks. The idea is the glyphosate gets absorbed through the leaves but doesn’t kill the plant so quickly – it gets dragged in to the root system and kills it slowly.
You’ll start to see it die off in 4-6 weeks. The root systems go for up to a hundred metres, so don’t be surprised if you see clumps of this elsewhere in the area starting to die off too. It’s why its so difficult to eradicate, the roots go for miles.
Get a goat or some chickens.
Triffids. Cover your eyes and break out the flamethrowers.
Flammable.
Don’t let it flower either. This stuff ruined summers for me. It’ll always find its way back unless you go straight to the root
My dad always called it convolvulus, which I thought summed it up marvellously.
If it’s got blue flowers, beware, it could be Morning Glory.
I hate this shite
It’s easy to pull up, next year pull it up sooner than this. The only way you will stop it is by covering it with lots of cardboard and then mulch such as compost. And keep pulling it out as soon as you see it, plus actually plant something you want there if you don’t want weeds.
So far I’ve been digging it out of my borders for 3 years with spraying too.
Next doors went all the way through my fence and into my shed
as others have said its bindweed. I am dealing with it this year by making up a weedkiller gel using glyphosate and wallpaper paste then painting the leaves with it, a couple weeks later and its all starting to die off so it is possible to control just might take a couple years.
Is this the Bindweed that makes it hard to sell your house,get a mortgage?
Fucking prick plant has tried on numerous occasions to take over my garden. Not today you leafy bastard!
Bindweed and just for fun is that a little bit of bramble at the bottom as well. So as you are pulling up the bindweed you have the possibility of grabbing thorns and ripping your hands to shit. Get thorn proof gloves.
Bindweed, good luck soldier
This stuff is a right pain in my arse!!
Spent 10 years ripping it up and it still comes back to haunt me every year
On the plus side it’s not brambles, Japanese knotweed or bamboo which are much worse things to come through from lazy neighbours and it will die back to nothing in the winter. Don’t let it get a foothold on your side though: strim, rip out and poison wherever possible and don’t let any flowers seed on your side. Keep any tiny bits of roots separate from your soil and don’t put it in your compost bin.
That fucking bindweed!!! Its coming over the fence from the neighbours side, the neighbours are hardly in so they aint dealing with it on their end, and last night i saw some growing through a vent into the house!!
Jokes on my landlord, because the bindweed in my garden is currently looping around the fucking Japanese Knotweed. (Landlord was slow to react when I told them about the Knotweed. Been like, three months, more of it now, would have been cheaper if they listened to me the second I found the ONE plant, but no).
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Bindweed
Bindweed. Don’t let it go unchecked as it will spread quickly. It will strangle and stunt growth on surrounding plants. Glyphosate/ Round up should sort it
Binder weed. It’s a twat.
Bindweed
Bindweed and it gets everywhere and strangles everything.
It is indeed bindweed. Some cheap weedkiller from home bargains or somewhere that has a small amount of glyphosate in it will kill what’s coming under your fence. Don’t let it get on your other plants, though.
And it’s going to keep coming relentlessly, unfortunately. You get winters off from killing it back, though.
Don’t go using poison.
It’s convulvus to most people where I live but the main thing is to pull up every part of it and get rid of the dead stuff as quickly as possible. And keep doing that until you have got it all.
I have the same problem. Next door let it run rampant, and now it’s growing from my grass. Cannot seem to get rid of it.
My nemesis – BINDWEED. Good luck with your oncoming battle against this stuff, it’s awful.
I think the _official_ name for it is Fucking Bindweed. Pain in the arse.
The most satisfying thing to get rid of.
Don’t pull at the leaves, it’ll just come apart. Instead trace it back up the stalk as far as possible, snip it with your thumbnail and tug from that end. You’ll pull whole sheets out at once.
And in the meantime enjoy their silly little trumpet flowers. Cheeky thieving fuckers.
Pull as much as you can up, then find a main stem, spray a load of weed killer in to a carrier bag, and put the stem in it and tie the bag up.
The stem will carry the weed killer back to the roots and kill it without contaminating other plants – it’s laborious.
Spent about 4 years trying to get rid of this stuff by just pulling it up, constantly.
Really all I can describe it as is like the broom scene in Fantasia because it doesn’t actually go, the leaves just get smaller and smaller, and then if you happen to leave it too long you’re back where you started.
This year I gave in and put some (glyphosate) weedkiller on, and it’s all dead within a fortnight.
It’s a long thin panel designed to keep people out of your garden and to denote borders between properties, but that’s not important right now.
Bindweed is the perfect name for this “oh look I sprout pretty flowers but only for a day. Here, have a shit ton of roots that’ll get into your walls” twat of a plant.
I just spent my afternoon yesterday hacking it all up from my garden. You see it, you kill it. Don’t let it grow.
Bind weed will go if you persist in pulling it up but will take few seasons. Won’t go completely if it’s creeping from a neighbour but constantly pulling it up will keep it contained ime.
Once it gets out of hand like that can be a right pain the arse.
Granny, granny, pop out of bed!
As has been mentioned, it’s fucking bindweed. It’s an absolutely insidious bastard of a plant. One individual can be acres in size if allowed to grow unchecked, and the smallest piece of root left in the soil will regenerate into a new plant. My street is infested with the stuff. It took me several years to eradicate a Virginia creeper that the original owners of my house had planted…only for fucking bindweed to take over instead.
I’ve just pulled about a millionty miles of this fucker out of my garden.
Cool tip if you are an iPhone user (android may be the same but dunno). You can take a photo of a leaf, tree or plant, then open the photo, and tap the information icon at the bottom. Then ‘lookup plant’ and it will tell you what it is.
Also works with landmarks, birds and animals and probably lots of other things.
It’s taken 3 years to finally eradicate it from mother in laws garden… 3 long years. It strangles everything… I read somewhere though pumpkins strangle it back though. So, ever fancied a pumpkin patch?
Ask your neighbour if you can go dig it up, this will be the only way to get rid of it. You don’t have to go secretly poisoning everything.
I think the only way to be certain is to nuke it from orbit
Convolvulus, AKA Bindweed.
We had it all over our garden for years and it only went away after digging out all the roots.
If you want to be ecologically friendly and not kill all the wee beasties that are food sources for other wildlife
Mix salt and washing up liquid together, break stem at lowest point, and smother in the goop (leaving a small bag of it banded over the stem will kill it to the roots)
Glycoshphate and weedkillers are detrimental to wildlife and kill both directly and indirectly
Bees, ladybirds, beetles and butterflies are all the things we need for pollination. It is also toxic to earthworms, which we need for soil health and are also food for birds
When it flowers, you’ll think Far Cry 5.
But yeah, Bindweed.
Bindweed. Its a fucking cunt of a plant.
Grab as much of the leafy stuff as you can, and shove it in a bucket of extra diluted glyphosate weedkiller. I recommend Gallup, available on amazon.Half strength for grasses and light weeds, bindweed is susceptible to weedkiller, but the roots are extremely long.
You’ll need several buckets, fill with weedkiler solution, cover with a binbag and leave it for a few weeks. The idea is the glyphosate gets absorbed through the leaves but doesn’t kill the plant so quickly – it gets dragged in to the root system and kills it slowly.
You’ll start to see it die off in 4-6 weeks. The root systems go for up to a hundred metres, so don’t be surprised if you see clumps of this elsewhere in the area starting to die off too. It’s why its so difficult to eradicate, the roots go for miles.
Get a goat or some chickens.
Triffids. Cover your eyes and break out the flamethrowers.
Flammable.
Don’t let it flower either. This stuff ruined summers for me. It’ll always find its way back unless you go straight to the root
My dad always called it convolvulus, which I thought summed it up marvellously.
If it’s got blue flowers, beware, it could be Morning Glory.
I hate this shite
It’s easy to pull up, next year pull it up sooner than this. The only way you will stop it is by covering it with lots of cardboard and then mulch such as compost. And keep pulling it out as soon as you see it, plus actually plant something you want there if you don’t want weeds.
So far I’ve been digging it out of my borders for 3 years with spraying too.
Next doors went all the way through my fence and into my shed
as others have said its bindweed. I am dealing with it this year by making up a weedkiller gel using glyphosate and wallpaper paste then painting the leaves with it, a couple weeks later and its all starting to die off so it is possible to control just might take a couple years.
Is this the Bindweed that makes it hard to sell your house,get a mortgage?
Fucking prick plant has tried on numerous occasions to take over my garden. Not today you leafy bastard!
Bindweed and just for fun is that a little bit of bramble at the bottom as well. So as you are pulling up the bindweed you have the possibility of grabbing thorns and ripping your hands to shit. Get thorn proof gloves.
Bindweed, good luck soldier
This stuff is a right pain in my arse!!
Spent 10 years ripping it up and it still comes back to haunt me every year
On the plus side it’s not brambles, Japanese knotweed or bamboo which are much worse things to come through from lazy neighbours and it will die back to nothing in the winter. Don’t let it get a foothold on your side though: strim, rip out and poison wherever possible and don’t let any flowers seed on your side. Keep any tiny bits of roots separate from your soil and don’t put it in your compost bin.
That fucking bindweed!!! Its coming over the fence from the neighbours side, the neighbours are hardly in so they aint dealing with it on their end, and last night i saw some growing through a vent into the house!!
Jokes on my landlord, because the bindweed in my garden is currently looping around the fucking Japanese Knotweed. (Landlord was slow to react when I told them about the Knotweed. Been like, three months, more of it now, would have been cheaper if they listened to me the second I found the ONE plant, but no).
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