Bindweed

[cyberfairy]

Yeah he's right, with some types of weed you can bruise them which causes loadsa damage, this is true of horsetail not sure about bindweed though it is almost indestructable in some ways

So stop with the happy smiley then
i am so giving up on gardening. I spent good money on organic slug and snail detterent-they climbed over and ate my damn plants. I poured down a kilogram in anger on top of the lot-the plants are eated, the slugs are fatted so I gave up and bought a pink fake grass parasol and more windchimes as the cunts can't eat them
The bindweed is still thriving-popped it in compost bin and seems to be eating compost triffid like

 

[northernhord]

So stop with the happy smiley then
i am so giving up on gardening. I spent good money on organic slug and snail detterent-they climbed over and ate my damn plants. I poured down a kilogram in anger on top of the lot-the plants are eated, the slugs are fatted so I gave up and bought a pink fake grass parasol and more windchimes as the cunts can't eat them
The bindweed is still thriving-popped it in compost bin and seems to be eating compost triffid like

Dont give up Cybz it taketh many moons learning the skills of thee green things, I learn loadsa new stuff every season

 

[spanglechick]

we don't have bindweed. but that's the only weed we don't have.

i found a stake the other day - looks like someone actually planted the fucking bramble that owns my garden. fucker! bramble roots go deeeeeeeep.

 

[skunkboy69]

the foreman really appreciated me removing all the bindweed fwith a great degree of success from bushes, hedges, etc. everybody else gave up, wanted to drive around in vans and hide in cafes, or stay in the hut reading.

Did you work for the council?I did and I used to hide a lot

 

[Rohen]

Bindweed is a real fucker of a weed to get rid of

Let it grow and then immerse the leaves and bits that grow in a bath of glyphosate and leave it there for a few days

That will kill the roots and is more direct than trying to dig it up or spray it everytime you see it


Bramble roots are evil and multiformed and spread like wildfire

Digging them up is a bastard job

Same trick dip the stems and leaves in a bath of glyphosate and leave for a few days and let the roots die that way

Slugs and Snails love beer Put out beer traps and let them die in alcoholic bliss.... and yes its a bit of beer but you can get stubbies cheap at Lidl

 

[guinnessdrinker]

Bindweed is a real fucker of a weed to get rid of

Let it grow and then immerse the leaves and bits that grow in a bath of glyphosate and leave it there for a few days

That will kill the roots and is more direct than trying to dig it up or spray it everytime you see it


Bramble roots are evil and multiformed and spread like wildfire

Digging them up is a bastard job

Same trick dip the stems and leaves in a bath of glyphosate and leave for a few days and let the roots die that way

Slugs and Snails love beer Put out beer traps and let them die in alcoholic bliss.... and yes its a bit of beer but you can get stubbies cheap at Lidl

you'll find some people don't like using chemicals, plus council gardeners are not allowed and would probably not want to use them, anyway. think of health and safety and the cost of using specially trained workers and the complaining public and their kiddies.

 

[moon]

i found a stake the other day - looks like someone actually planted the fucking bramble that owns my garden. fucker! bramble roots go deeeeeeeep.

Spangles that made me LOL, you poor woman, who in their right mind would plant it...heheh

 

[Rohen]

Then its painful digging.... Nasty work

 

[pembrokestephen]

So stop with the happy smiley then
i am so giving up on gardening. I spent good money on organic slug and snail detterent-they climbed over and ate my damn plants. I poured down a kilogram in anger on top of the lot-the plants are eated, the slugs are fatted so I gave up and bought a pink fake grass parasol and more windchimes as the cunts can't eat them
The bindweed is still thriving-popped it in compost bin and seems to be eating compost triffid like

Organic's all very well, but it's not perfect. And if you want to defeat slugs, I'm afraid that your only options are dirty tricks (ie non-organic approaches), or extremely hard work.

There are things you can do with evil metaldehyde pellets that will reduce the risk of harm to other wildlife, like putting them under cover (which also stops them getting soggy and useless). The slugs are more likely to stay undercover and die horribly than make a run for it, so less likely to get eaten by birds.

You could also try beer traps, or the honest-to-goodness stick with a pin on it, go out late in the evening on these warm summer ones, and skewer slugs into a bucket of hot water.

The general approach needs to be one of revolution rather than total war. Whether it's bindweed, slugs, or blackfly, you have to operate on the basis that you are up against a force which outguns, outnumbers, and outwits you, and has been at it for a lot longer than you have. If you can push your envelope out by only the tiniest bit, then that's a victory. Don't aim to eradicate bindweed: you won't. And if you do, the niche will probably be taken by something whose flowers don't even smell nice. Settle for avoiding it choking your stuff as much as you can. Don't aim for a slug-free garden (oh, but do I dream....?); just aim for one where you can raise your more vulnerable stuff in a way that reduces the risk. That might mean assertive slug-eradication policies, or raised beds, or just growing stuff that they don't attack (ha!). And every plant you raise, every bean you eat, is a tiny poke in the eye to Da Man (being Mother Nature in this case) that you prevailed against...

 

[pembrokestephen]

you'll find some people don't like using chemicals, plus council gardeners are not allowed and would probably not want to use them, anyway. think of health and safety and the cost of using specially trained workers and the complaining public and their kiddies.

This is true, but there are compromises that have to be struck.

I use glyphosphate on brambles, because they're just too rapacious. I probably wouldn't use it on bindweed, because I don't mind so much pulling that stuff out, even if I don't uproot it.

As I see it, organic, or chemical-free, whatever you want to call it, gardening is an ideal to be aspired to. If we are to aspire to it, we have to recognise that we are going to make our lives harder in other ways. Pest control sans chemicals is, on the whole, a lot harder, as is weed control. So we have to balance our need to control weeds (or even the degree to which we feel we do) with the tools we are prepared to use to help us exert that control. The nobility of chemical-free gardening comes at a price: that price is the extra time and effort involved in controlling pests and weeds, or fertilising soil, etc. the "right" way.

So I'll use glyphosphate, but selectively. I'll even buy in compost sometimes. But in amongst that, I'm hand-weeding, making my own compost, etc. Just being a bit more organic than I have been...