[Market-farming] Dealing with Bindweed

Elaine Granata elainegranata at msn.com
Tue Apr 28 20:15:18 EDT 2009


Jay:  If I could sell bindweed I'd be rich.  There are bindweed mites that are available from our state (CO) ag department.  They colonize the bindweed and knock it down and in a couple of years kill it off.  The first year after colonization it keeps it from blooming and in subsequent years the mites kill it off.

Call your ag department or extension and see if they have any.

Good luck,

Elaine
Denver
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: jay sleichter 
  To: market-farming at lists.ibiblio.org 
  Sent: Tuesday, April 28, 2009 11:40 AM
  Subject: [Market-farming] Dealing with Bindweed


        We have always had a bindweed problem in our garden plots.  We have been very diligent and pull it by hand every year, all year.  It is getting much better.  We have also put down mulch (straw), and black plastic. The straw helps, but the black plastic did nothing. It just grows over to a hole and pokes through. I have used chemical, but I don't want to spray when the garden is planted. Does anyone have an easier way to get rid of it?
       




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