Name that plant!

 
Hi,

I've spent the last month or so at weekends preparing my garden for new
turf. The glyphosate obliterated everything including the grass and
comfry, which is great, however this cheeky "ivy type" plant (might even
be ivy but don't think so) keeps growing through even when buried deep
underground. It also grows up my garden wall. Little bits of the root
got dispersed around the garden and now on my lovely brown garden (which
is awaiting turf) there are the odd few leaves sprouting out! Could
somebody please name this plant (see photo) and suggest a weed killer
powerful enough to kill off the plant and its roots?

Thanks


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ma701ss

 

Joe Vine.

Could be a pipevine, Aristolochia macrophylla.  Whatever it is, cut and
paint should eliminate it.  Cut it back to the ground wherever it
emerges and dab the stumps with glyphosate concentrate, just a tad.  
Keep this up for a few weeks and it will likely vanish.

 ma701ss said:

Bindweed. It can be beaten, but it will take time.  Don't till; just remove
the green tops, over and over and over again.

If you go the herbicide route, it will take multiple applications.
Since the weed is the only thing growing in your picture:

"Glyphosate (Roundup, Touchdown, or equivalent) is a non-selective
herbicide with no soil activity. Any labeled crop can be planted after fall or
spring glyphosate application. Glyphosate should be applied when plants
are actively growing and are at or beyond full bloom. Poor control will
result if plants are under stress, not actively growing, or covered with
dust."

http://www.ag.ndsu.edu/pubs/plantsci/weeds/w802w.htm


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Pat in Plymouth MI
    
"Yes, swooping is bad."
 
email valid but not regularly monitored
  

 
The downside of buying Roundup is empowering Monsanto -- a company
which I have no hesitation in labeling EVIL!

Do some research into this monster, which has done such things, inter
alia, as compelling dirt-poor peasants in Third World countries (who
always drew water from their own wells), to BUY water, at prices that
absorb a huge percentage of their income.

Out of curiosity, I just did a quickie search under keywords "Monsanto
Evil".  Was amazed at the number of sites and the detail on their evil-
doing.

Another search on "Monsanto and Roundup" yielded another "harvest" of
evil.

HB

 Higgs Boson wrote:

Glyphosate is out of its exclusive use patent so there are competitors
making it now, often much cheaper than Monsanto.  It won't be called roundup
whcih is their trade name.

D