How to get rid of bing weed?

Jean falkey
by Jean falkey
I have what I call a weed in my yard that grows into long ground vines, with small leaves and produces small white flowers. It looks alot like a mintiture morning glory. I think the more I cut it off the more tenticles a single plant produces. Comes back even when using weed killer. Makes my decorative plants look ugly.
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  • Shoshana Shoshana on May 25, 2017

    Take a pair of scissors or shears and snip the bindweed vine off at ground level. Watch the location carefully and cut the vine back again when it appears. This method forces the bindweed plant to use up its energy reservoirs in its roots, which will eventually kill it.

  • Jean falkey Jean falkey on May 25, 2017

    I think your just guessing. I mow it down constantly. It doesn't help.

  • Joyce Drumm Joyce Drumm on May 25, 2017

    Spray it with brush killer (usually deleted). It might not get all the roots the first time, but as it comes up again, and you spray it again, it generally kills the roots.

  • Phyllis Phyllis on May 27, 2017

    I have a white clematis which blooms in the fall and I let it grow up a tree in the yard. I read in a gardening magazine that this is worse than a weed and now I have a lawn full of it from the seeds. Terrible!!! I've been working 3 years to try to get me lawn back, having to pull everyone up by the roots. Scotts weed does not touch it. Good luck. Never plant and the magazine says it should never be sold.

  • Nancy Turner Nancy Turner on May 27, 2017

    The weed killer may not work because it sees the clematis as a plant and not a weed.