bind weed and cooch grass horror

cherokee · 29-06-2006, 22:05

having spent a back aching but enjoyable afternoon down the allotment and getting a lovely tan in the process i got to wonderin if there are anymore alloters on here . and if so have you ever suffered the bind weed and cooch grass horror? surely there must be an easir way than picking it all out so it dosent return

its got so bad its all i see when i close my eyes .. my hubby tells me it will be easier next yr when the whole plot has been dug over. bearing in mind he said this as he was planting the beetroot ..ummmm somthing fishy here

West Ender · 29-06-2006, 22:29

All you can do is keep on digging. Sorry!

accymel · 30-06-2006, 08:53

UUrrrggghhh i think ive got a load of bindwind in my back garden its a blooming nightmare hence problems getting it sorted as ive got some bramble though i dont know what cooch grass is but no doubt theres some there too

grrr so u have my sympathy lol

Ber999T · 30-06-2006, 10:46

Used to have a plot with a mate years ago.

Now got large(ish) back gareden split into 2 doing 1 part (again) this years and will start on other next.

Bl**dy DOCKS, CREEPING BUTTERCUP etc and sorry to say you will have to dig all the couch, bind weed etc as even the best weed killers will not kill ALL the roots.

Tried weed killer it last year still found live roots when digging this year, as weeds tend to split easy so new ones pop up.

cherokee · 30-06-2006, 12:57

oh well back to the digging ,arrrgh

think i will have done it in time for my retirement

only got 19yrs to go

Madhatter · 30-06-2006, 23:30

glysophate, sprayed several times until bind weed and brambles die back works, and it doesn't come back, what will come back is the binweed that you couldn't get at on next doors plot. The roots can travel yards, between shoots coming upwards, so the root over the other plot won't get enough weed killer to finish it off. Also that one is connected to shoots yards inside that plot.
It is possible to get it back to your boundary though and you just have to carefully try to pull the roots up back towards the boundary in the direction they've come from when it comes through. Remember though that a 1cm piece of root will grow a new bind weed plant, as will a slither of leef. If your removing by hand, your best unwinding them and gettingrid of each plant carefully or checking daily for roots breaking though, and pulling them up.
Brambles can take several weeks to kill, and again need several sprays, again the problem is, brambles grow up, fall over, root, gro up fall over, bit like this nnnnnnnnnn so if you kill the the end one, the rest will come back, but again if you kill them and clear them to the edge youshould be able to keep them under control.

couch grass, thick, course, wild grass that grows in clumps. I've never been able to get rid of, I can only keep it down, I dig it out it comes back, I weed kill it, it dies for two years and it's back.

If your going to use glysophate remember it kills what it's sprayed on, and if bind weed is growing through a prized plant, that means unwinding each stem, covering the plant with plastic and just spraying the bindweed or painting it with a model brush.

chav1 · 01-07-2006, 07:47

seems a lot of hard work and expense , i would cocrete over the bloody lot and put astro turf down

cherokee · 01-07-2006, 10:39

am affraid chav1 that although the astro turf sounds an easy option , it wont grow my veg pmsl

but thanks madhatter for your advice i will look into that one and let you know how i go . i must admit your right on the bindweed its a ruddy pest i no sooner weeded than in a day or so its back arrrrrgh

Madhatter · 01-07-2006, 21:35

cocrete? where does that cum from chav lol

Madhatter · 03-07-2006, 22:03

Are you male? if not get hubby to weed it, then you plant it and claim the glorry.