[noshed]

The thing to remember about bindweed roots is not to compost them. Put them in a bucket of water for a few months to drown them.

[Will1983]

I just pack them up into a bin bag and take them home to go in the brown bin.
Ive tried the drowning method and its not worth messing about with them. it just makes a really stinky mess.

[sazhig]

A large area of my plot was sprayed with an industrial weed killer just before I took it on last year and tbh that one application hasn't really made a dent in the weeds. Yes it killed a lot of couch grass and stopped it growing for a few weeks of the summer...but then it starting to grow again and the other weeds that were chocked out or just hidden by the couch (things like dock, horseradish and bindweed) haven't been affected at all by the looks of it and have gone a bit mad since! I can see that it would take a fair few applications over many months to completely clear a plot of weeds.

I garden organically so won't be using any more weed killer and am having similar problems getting the digging done as I'm pregnant and have an unstable pelvis and my manual labourer (aka my hubby  ) has been busy with work. But we've managed to keep on top of the plot by mowing it every few weeks during the growing season and we covered a whole section with plastic and grew crops through that towards the end of last season. Now that spring is on the way and weeds are waking up again I shall be badgering DH to go down and do some heavy duty digging over the weekend, just to break the soil up for me. Then I can go down and do some light digging with my lightweight azada (highly recommend one if you find digging with a spade/fork hard) and slowly work my way up the plot, removing the weeds by hand as I go. The bits we can't get to yet will either be covered in more plastic and card or mowed regularly.

[Will1983]

horseradish is such a pain, ive got loads of it on my plot but not having much luck getting rid of it, if you dig it out you end up with an enormous hole which is backbreaking to dig and roundup doesnt seem to affect it!

[Spana]

I've cleared several plots with weedkiller , just at the start and wouldn't  hesitate to use it again.  But it will only kill growing weeds, you will still have weed seeds in the soil.
I have grass paths  in my veg garden and spray round the edges every year to stop the grass creeping into the beds.