Any weed killer containing glyphosate eg. round up or gallop. One of the best ways of dealing with bindweed is to mix up the weedkiller, as per instructions and then add a small amount of wall-paper paste to the weed killer mix until you have a jelly-ish consistency. Put this in either small pplastic bags or jam jars and make sure the growing tip of the bindweed is in the mix and leave it there for a week or so. Glyphosate is a translocated weedkiller and this will enable it to go thro' the whole plane, killing it off in about 2 weeks or so. Mush better than any of the 'instant' weedkillers which will only kill the top growth.
My garden was under a waist high layer of bindweed when I got my hse. I stood at one end of the garden and reeled it in to reveal a dead rose garden and several paving slabs which I later recycled as path.
The problem was solved locally by weedkiller, however, the source of the bindweed is just beyond the end of the garden and some still tries to get in, under the fence. Nothing to speak of, but if you find your source is beyond the garden encourage your neighbours to treat their gardens too.
oooohhh - sodding creeping buttercup! Definitely - I should think that being coated in glyphosate will kill anything off.
The advantage of the washing-up liquid trick is you can paint it onto weeds which are among other plants, so you don't risk killing off your prize roses etc.
Yes, it will work for creeping buttercup as well.. It works by disabling the plant's mechanism for taking in nutrients, therefore it always works best at this time of year when plants are growing well. Like the idea of w/up liquid. The point of wall paper paste in little bags is that you can actually fix them onto the top of the plant (with string, clothe peg) etc and it saves you having to spray the whole plant. Whilst on the subject of killing wqeeds, it is useful to know that if you have a weed with a thick leaf (eg mares-tails), if you lightly crush (in situ) the leaves before spraying the weed will absorb the poison more readily.
I will also add a large layer of chipbark mulch, underlined with some weed control fabric. So that, along with weed killer should get the stuff at bay.....I hope!
Anothe thing to help with the bind weed is to stick a bamboo cane in so that each growth can scale up that and hence make it easier to dose them and also you wont miss one, Mike
