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  • From: "Bill Shoemaker" <wshoemak AT inil.com>
  • To: "Market Farming" <market-farming AT franklin.metalab.unc.edu>
  • Subject: Re: Field bindweed
  • Date: Fri, 9 Aug 2002 09:13:01 -0500


You're right. That's why I specified seedling bindweed. If it's mature, I
don't think it'll work. On the other hand, if you keep burning down a
plant's photosynthetic tissue, at some point it runs out of food and begins
to starve. Each species will vary in it's ability to stand up under the
pressure of burn-down. I think it would take a long time with mature
bindweed. But because seedling bindweed hasn't had a chance to build massize
rhizomes, it shouldn't take too long to deplete it's energy reserves. Same
with any other perennial weed in the seedling stage, such as burdock, hemp
dogbane, etc.

Now,.. lemon? Maybe olive oil, basil and a little sweet marjoram. Throw in
some dandelion too.

Bill Shoemaker
Sr Research Specialist, Food Crops
Univ of Illinois - St Charles Hort Research Center



>Bill Shoemaker, vinegar and lemon on bindweed? While Canada thistle has a
>fairly deep tap root bindweed has massive subsurface growth. It's why
>pulling the vegetative growth, even if you yard up a bit of root with it,
is
>uneffective. Bill, are you saying that the vinegar will kill enough of the
>plant to starve the deeper root systems? I was thinking of taking a small
>area and covering it with 6-mill black plastic. Does that make any sense?





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