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Bindweed?

HeartinthedirtHeartinthedirt Posts: 300
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Sprung up  from nowhere and n the last week. Will I regret it if I don't pull it 
It's knowing what to do with things that counts - Robert Frost
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  • LynLyn Posts: 21,937
    You will definitely regret it if you don’t dig it out.  Dig deep, don’t leave a bit of the root in or it will re grow. 
    It’s  a PITA if if gets a hold. 
    Gardening on the wild, windy west side of Dartmoor. 

  • raisingirlraisingirl Posts: 6,652
    yes, bindweed. Ideally get a hand fork under it and lift it out with the (probably tiny) piece of brittle white root it's growing from. If you pull it it will probably snap and it'll have grown back by the time you've walked in to the house and looked out of the window at it
    “Light thinks it travels faster than anything but it is wrong. No matter how fast light travels, it finds the darkness has always got there first” 
  • HeartinthedirtHeartinthedirt Posts: 300
    It's vigorous then @raisingirl 😂
    It's knowing what to do with things that counts - Robert Frost
  • raisingirlraisingirl Posts: 6,652
    yup  :o
    “Light thinks it travels faster than anything but it is wrong. No matter how fast light travels, it finds the darkness has always got there first” 
  • PalustrisPalustris Posts: 4,109
    Put it like this when we started on this garden I took 24 sacks of roots of it to the tip from a 30 by 1 metre patch.
  • UffUff Posts: 3,199
    I agree with every word Lyn says. Every tiny scrap needs getting rid of or you'll be in Palustris' position before you know it.
    SW SCOTLAND but born in Derbyshire
  • Hostafan1Hostafan1 Posts: 34,053
    roundup works a treat on it
    Devon.
  • Slow-wormSlow-worm Posts: 1,432
    It will take over an entire garden pretty quickly if you don't get rid, but the smugness of getting an entire root out is sublime. 😁
  • HeartinthedirtHeartinthedirt Posts: 300
    I'm traumatised now! I've just been at it for about half an hour but no idea if I got it all. Fingers crossed.
    It's knowing what to do with things that counts - Robert Frost
  • Slow-wormSlow-worm Posts: 1,432
    Heartinthedirt said:
    I'm traumatised now! I've just been at it for about half an hour but no idea if I got it all. Fingers crossed.
    You'll soon know - I'm a bindweed removal expert, lol, I can dig the stuff up like an archaeologist with a skeleton, but there's always bits that pop up again. You'll be fine as long as you keep an eye on it and get any bits out when you notice them. 
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