Bindweed......I'm losing the will.....help...

Bindweed, just carry on cutting it back and seeking out the roots.  The one good thing about bindweed is that the roots are brilliant white and easily seen in the ground.

I think it would be better if you looked for "Macralon" rather than Perspex as the latter can crack and shatter.

Cheers,    Tony.

Blooming horrible stuff bindweed, I have loads of it on a plot I took on in November.  Not only that, I also have loads of mare's tail, brambles and thistles.  What makes it even worse still is about a third od the garden has a lot of clay in the soil and it's really shallow.  Someone told me the people who had it before us threw a load of the top soil down the bank with the grass  

I think with bindweed the secret is to pull every bit you can get as soon as you see it pop through the soil. Never let it grow at all - I read the other day that it will also  root from bits lying along the soil. The problem is that you need to be able to visit your plot quite a lot to do  this. It does get better. The new plants that grow from bits left behind do not have deep roots and pull out easily. I do find it much harder to remove it from raised beds where it takes root in corners and under the wood and you can't get at the root without damaging the raised bed. On my own plot, my beds are flat and edged with bricks level with the ground, if weeds take root under one I can just lift an individual brick and dig out the root. As Tony says if you just keep cutting it back it should eventually exhaust itself. 

Insert a bamboo cane next to the bindweed and train the weed up it. Mix up your weedkiller in a jam jar and place next to the bamboo cane. Slide the bindweed off the cane and into the jar. Cover the jar to stop water getting in and wait. Bindweed is guaranteed to die.

Genius 

It loves my new fencing I put in at the plot...    so i have sprayed them now that the veg is sort of finished... it is dying off nicely!!

But might need another dose in the Spring -- it is very resilient