Is this the most annoying weed?

A_Clock

Jolaaled wrote: »

in my garden, it's the bindweed that seems to take over...anyone know of tried and tested methods of get rid of it FINALLY!!

Dig it out, then when it starts to shoot again do the same. Got rid of most of mine that way, you learn to see the new shoots easy after awhile :j

peter_the_piper

Bittercress for me, one touch and the seeds jump everywhere.

rhiwfield

Jolaaled wrote: »

in my garden, it's the bindweed that seems to take over...anyone know of tried and tested methods of get rid of it FINALLY!!

Try digging and the glysophate as mentioned, buty another method that seems to work is to lay black plastic (inside out compost bag maybe) over affected area and leave for a full year. It was a combination of all 3 methods that got rid of my bindweed.

moana

peter_the_piper wrote: »

Bittercress for me, one touch and the seeds jump everywhere.

Ahhh.

That's what it's called.

Red brown leaves, yellow flowers, jumping seeds.?????????????????????????

Just googled.
Mine's not Bitterbress.
Wonder what it is. Apart from a pain.

linni

We have tried putting the black plastic stuff on the horsetail and covered that with stones and within a few months it has broken through the plastic in places and travelled along to the edges and comes up with a vengance. We have applied neat Glyphosphate which kills the top but doesn't seem to affect the roots.. We try and dig/rake it regularly and it does keep it down a bit but it gets around the roots of the plants and in the nooks and crannies that are hard to reach. Someone once told me to use a blowtorch to burn it off, but if I let hubby loose with that, I wouldn't have any garden left!

A_Clock

linni wrote: »

Someone once told me to use a blowtorch to burn it off, but if I let hubby loose with that, I wouldn't have any garden left!

That's just the same as chopping the tops off

Patchwork_Quilt

We had horsetail coming through our drive and it's breaking through on the allotment!

The only thing that kept it down on the drive was a regular dosing with a kettleful of boiling water.

peter_the_piper

moana wrote: »

Ahhh.

That's what it's called.

Red brown leaves, yellow flowers, jumping seeds.?????????????????????????

Just googled.
Mine's not Bitterbress.
Wonder what it is. Apart from a pain.

OH reckons its toadflax. Sort of like clover but with creeping fibrous roots and often a carrotlike root. Projectile seeds. Horrible in containers.

olly300

rhiwfield wrote: »

Try digging and the glysophate as mentioned, buty another method that seems to work is to lay black plastic (inside out compost bag maybe) over affected area and leave for a full year. It was a combination of all 3 methods that got rid of my bindweed.

I did that as well. I noticed with mine some of the roots came to the surface which meant I could dig it out easily.

Oh and the most annoying weed are any that comes through the fence via one of your neighbours who won't do anything to eliminate it.

In my case I was lucky enough to be able to repeatedly spray my neighbours ground elder with weed killer along the fence as they did nothing with the garden. Then after buying a big container of the stuff I discovered my neighbour had decided they wanted to tackle the weeds themselves and so had.

olly300

linni wrote: »

We have tried putting the black plastic stuff on the horsetail and covered that with stones and within a few months it has broken through the plastic in places and travelled along to the edges and comes up with a vengance. We have applied neat Glyphosphate which kills the top but doesn't seem to affect the roots.. We try and dig/rake it regularly and it does keep it down a bit but it gets around the roots of the plants and in the nooks and crannies that are hard to reach. Someone once told me to use a blowtorch to burn it off, but if I let hubby loose with that, I wouldn't have any garden left!

The only solution to move house.

However first you have to keep it chopped down just in case a potential buyer notices it in the garden.