ld Morning Glory they are called too?
ack plastic for two years.
have a central mass it spreads from?
ms. How can I get rid of it?
Don't know about Roundup being useless on bindweed, maybe you have a resistant variety. The stuff I have that grows out of the gravel and up the chainlink gets stopped by Roundup for a year, kind of shrivels up after a couple of days after spraying. The Weed-B-Gone takes care of it in the lawn where it runs for yards below the top of the grass before popping up flowers. Only good for 1 year, though, sometimes less. Always comes back. Talked with a guy in a rural area that hated the stuff, started in digging to get past the roots. Was down
8' before he quit and still hadn't found bottom. You can pull the stuff by hand, if you're careful, you can sometimes get 10" to a foot of root out, it doesn't come back for quite awhile. Top it off with an herbicide squirt. It's quite common here, some places look like they're raising bindweed and not grass. One corner lot had some low evergreen shrubs it had gotten into, all they could do was grub those out, put down a soil sterilizer, resod and replant. It likes climbing, so folk's 6' chainlink fences are covered with it. The flowers are attractive, we get pink, white and half and half. Just that once it gets started, you can't get rid of it. Pieces of it will start new plants, so mowing it is more of a disaster than letting it be. If you pull the stuff, dump it on some gravel to dry so it won't reroot. The lesson is that you can control it, but not eradicate it. Vegatative cockroaches. States east of here have never heard of it. Have other persistant weeds, though.Stan