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It looks like a Morning Glory vine. -
looks like bindweed to me. tough to control since it has perennial roots. If you don't want to use herbicides it may take four years of constant pulling to starve it to death. If you use Roundup you can control it with three sprays six weeks apart. -
Bindweed. Really tough to get rid of. Pull it before it seeds or your problems will multiply. Our backyard was heavily infested. I did use roundup, but we also graded and brought in lots of new soil. Guess what? In my beds, I still pull a vine now and then. I really keep my eye open for it and am as aggressive as I can be, but no chemicals now because there is too big a chance I will hit something I really love. -
I have that too! I think mine is called hedgewood bindweed. My garden is pretty much carpeted in it right now. At least the flowers are pretty! -
Yep, bindweed. And CreekLine, you make me feel better. Misery loves company, I guess. Our front lawn is pretty much a bindweed flower field right now. I'm trying to get rid of it, but it's virtually impossible, as Walter said. I am pretty much organic-all-the-way, but I inherited some Roundup from some friends moving to an apartment, and I tried it on bindweed to pretty much no effect. -
According to my avid and non-organic gardening neighbor, anything that works on bindweed is seriously illegal.
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Try Boiling water about 1 Gallon of water with 1/2 cup of vinegar added and pour on the stems....a couple weeks later do the stems you missed...after three or four times you should have it down to controllable.... it IS bindweed but is also called "wild morning glory" -
thanks for all the replys ,I'll continue to work on it but now at least I know what to call it -
Could it be Superbells Trailing Whites...I'm no expert but they look like it to me:-o -
Given this early drought, I'll let ANYthing green hang out in my yard right now...lol. And flowers too...bounus!! :) -
**..bonus!!
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It looks like wild morning glory, it is really hard to get rid of. I use lots of round-up. -
Definitely a morning glory -
This of this as your enemy--will bind up everything. Don't be lulled into complacency by a few tolerable flowers.
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Sharron, I just tried the boiling water and vinegar thing and the bindweed doesn't seem to care in the least.
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It is clearly the cockroach of vegetation.
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@Steve then try JUST Boiling Vinegar....If done early in the day, by after noon it should be shrivled and dead in this heat....bring it to a roiling boil! And the very LAST thing I have used.....I hate to tell anyone because after five years grass will still barely grow there and it was an accident in the first place....Cleaning our main garbage can after hubby put raw chicken in it because he'd left it out and forgotten about it...well it was four days before garbage day so you can ...»
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Wow. Not sure I want to try that, but I will give the vinegar a shot. I have an area of former lawn that I buried in newspaper and mulch. The bindweed keeps coming back, and I want to kill it, but still be able to grow some more xeric perennials in that area later.
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Try to find an end of the bindweed that looks like it goes back to the main stem, pour most of the boiling vinegar on the main stem, but keep about a cup in reserve and pour that into an empty jar like spaghetti sauce or something comes in, dig a small hole just big enough to keep the jar from falling over and set the jar into it; then drop the loose end down into the jar and put a small stone or something in it to weight it down and keep it towards the middle or botto of the jar. it ...»
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just remember the vinagar kills everything not just the bindweed. when i used that method it took about a week to kill. round up is next
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@Helen, did you use Boiling Vinegar? I set it to a roiling boil and use my teapot to deliver measured amounts. Done Early in the AM on a hot day even a dandlion won't recover. Water in the area of the treated weeds does need to be denyed for several days in order to make sure the action is not deluted.
