Bindweed is the bane of my existence. I thought I had escaped it's evil grip when I moved from Utah to Idaho. As soon as we arrived here last Tuesday, it was too dark to see anything, but I saw none of those little white or pink blooms in the dark, so I was happy. Ya, I know, they don't bloom in the dark! Early next morning, I walked out to the lawn, and it was EVERYWHERE. I almost cried!
After unloading the moving truck, my husband decided that the 3 acres of lawn needed to be mowed so that we could find the dogs. They aren't small dogs. The lawn was just REALLY tall since it hadn't been mowed yet this year, and it had been raining for weeks. Once he got a small second mowed (that is all he has mowed. Three acres is too much!), I realized that the bindweed wasn't nearly as bad as I thought it was. I was so relieved! I talked to the neighbor down the road, and she said she just sprays her whole lawn with Weed be Gone every year, and it stays out of the lawn until the following year. So, I headed into town, and bought a bottle of it that you attach to the hose. The wind has been blowing way to hard to spray yet, but I'm ready if it ever stops blowing!
The good news is that I have been weeding the large veggie garden the last two days, and was surprised to find only one little bindweed in there. I figured that if it was in the lawn, the entire garden must be full of it, but it wasn't! I know that the previous owners of this place would rototill the garden every year (they sold veggies at the farmer's market), and figured that those roots would have been chopped into a million pieces, creating a million new plants, but I lucked out! I brought my rototiller, and figured that I wouldn't be able to use it, but now I know that I can!
I've always used roundup on that terrible weed, and it has never done a bit of good. I'll try the weed be gone instead, and see if that works.
