Bindweed Puns

I am preparing a new bed for garlic, and the soil is beautiful as I have worked on it for years. However our yard has almost every inch of it invaded with bindweed and some parts also with creeping charlie. If I smother with cardboard, and put some lasagne layers of horse manure, leaves and compost on top, leave it for a while and then plant in it after a month, will the garlic be okay for the winter? Or is the cardboard a bad idea and interfere with the garlic rooting?

I am in Ontario, Canada Zone 5b, so we get quite cold winters.

I got bindweed (morning glory) poping up all over my food forest fruit tree area through about a foot of mulch. It is quickly spreading and taking over after many attempts to uproot and pull it out. Has anyone had any success in getting rid of it? I want to remove it before I go in to plant perenial flowers. I've heard of pouring boiling water over it or getting bindweed mites. Has anyone had any success with these methods??

This weed was out of control. I had neighbors letting it run amock and when it got to my fence line it sent out a spiderweb of roots that I simply couldn't beat.

I finally went after it with Roundup. I'm still fighting it but I'm optimistic I'm about to win. Y worry is the Roundup. I haven't even used a full small spray bottle of it and it's mostly near flowers but some was near my pineapple sage and blackberries.

Should I dig those up and not have anything edible in that part of the yard? For how long? What am I really facing here?

I posted a thread regarding the bindweed and brambles in the garden (here).

I have cleared and cut back all the overgrown mass, but digging out even the bramble roots is a massive task.

The bind weed roots is an even bigger task.

I am wondering whether to cover it all in tarp over the winter and dig out in very early spring. This may make the job easier, but I presume will not help shield the return off.

If I were to clear a layer of top soil containing most of the roots and sow grass / lawn seeds I presume it would all come back given there will at least be bindweed roots underneath.

What would be the best way forward for a lawn in this situation. Sow it? Or buy turf? Then use weed killer on every single leaf that pushes through?

Is it even worth covering with tarp over winter? Would that make digging roots out easier? And what I presume is an overgrown lawn or what used to be a lawn at some point?

Thanks

I have taken on the gardening of a very neglected garden. The entire thing was covered in brambles, nettles and bindweed. Fortunately under half of it was a patio but the back half is not.

My concern is about weed killer. I need to eradicate it all but will want to plant in the soil or lay some grass. It was also getting to a lovely honeysuckle.

I’ve removed most of it around the honeysuckle and taken some cuttings just in case.

What weed killer will attack the nettles, brambles and more importantly the bindweed ideally preventing new growth but will not ruin the soil.

How far away from the honeysuckle do I need to spray to save it. It is very well established.

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Thank you.

It's all in the title really, it covers all of our plants and constantly ripping it out does nothing in the long run. Appreciate your thoughts :)

I think this may earn me a lot of downvotes and I appreciate anyone patient enough to explain this to me. I have a small, steep slope that ends with a retaining wall behind my house. I learned the hard way (by clearing out a ton of weeds last year) that the best way to keep my basement from flooding is to have lots of plants growing on that slope.

I planted some native grasses last year and I'm noticing a few of the weeds coming back. Im not a gardener, so I'm hoping to figure out the lowest maintenance way to have pants in there that are resilient.

So far what's coming back is two kinds of stonecrop, bindweed, and virginia creeper. I might be crazy but I think they all look nice enough, so why not just let them grow and pull them at the top of the slope?

Like I said, I'm 100% uneducated on this and I know people are going to have strong feelings so please know I'm willing to deal with them if I have to!

Has anyone had any luck getting mites from them? We filled out an application about a month ago and haven’t heard anything. If you’ve received the mites, maybe you’d like to share?

First summer at a new house. It had just a little bit of bind weed but the last two weeks I feel like it’s taken over my whole yard. It’s literally ridiculous and it’s even trying to climb up my sunflowers and is choking them. How the hell do I get rid of this weed?

Has anyone used field bindweed mites as a biological control method? How’d it go? I’m seeing mixed information about whether they work on lawns that are regularly watered.

CO Dept of Agriculture bindweed mites

Anyone on here have any suggestions for dealing with bindweed? Did the boiling water, beneficial insects, pulling them, which apparently you’re not supposed to do. Short of spraying the crap out of them with chemicals, which I am loathe to do, anyone have other ideas? Thank you!!!

I have bindweed (morning glory) popping up all over my fruit tree & perenial garden area through about a foot of mulch. It is quickly spreading and taking over after many attempts to uproot and pull it out. Has anyone had any success in getting rid of it without chemicals? I've heard of pouring boiling water over it or getting bindweed mites. Has anyone had any success with these methods?? Please help, much appreciated 🙏🙏