[Market-farming] Dealing with Bindweed

Kelly Saxer kellysaxer at hotmail.com
Tue Apr 28 23:40:47 EDT 2009


There is a bindweed mite (the weed's natural controller) that some
university researchers in New Mexico were studying and attempting to
reintroduce into areas plagued by bindweed.  I read about this several
years ago....maybe a Google search for the bindweed mite may lead to
something.


Kelly Saxer

Desert Roots Farm

(602) 751-0655

kellysaxer at hotmail.com




Date: Tue, 28 Apr 2009 10:40:55 -0700
From: jaysleichter at yahoo.com
To: market-farming at lists.ibiblio.org
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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