Is it a weed?

[amandaandherveg]

Last year I had a couple of areas where one particular weed/plant kept appearing.

It was very fast growing, seemed like a foot overnight. Light green heart shaped leaves twisted around and up everything that it came near. I don't have a pic but can anyone suggest what it might be so I can Google some pics?

[rogesse]

Classic description of bindweed or morning glory - but it can't be that easy!

I'm too much of a luddite to be able to link a picture!

[Snadger]

Pretty flowers but a pain in the butt!

[amandaandherveg]

That'll be them then, and yes, a real pain in the butt! Do I just have to keep digging them out as they appear?

[Lavenderblue]

try not to break them as a tiny bit can sprout into a new plant. Its a swine to get rid of, our lottie is covered in it and we dig and dig and dig and more appears.

[Flummery]

The roots are long and white like spaghetti but branched. You are supposed to be able to kill them with glyphosate but I haven't managed it! If you break the roots (and leave the bits in the ground) each bit will sprout. It's an absolute thug! I had three separate digging sessions where I have it last year. Spring, summer and autumn. By autumn I was finding less of it. I want to plant a blackcurrant bush there but I'm keeping it in the pot to see if anything comes up this year.

Good luck getting rid!

[Two_Sheds]

My allotment was full of bindweed when I took it on, but digging and pulling it out has beaten it (except where it is still coming in under my neighbour's fence).

Constant defoliation will eventually kill any plant

[lyndsbob]

hmmmmm the dreaded neighbours fence.
we have a breezeblock wall between us and our neighbours, with about a 9inch foundation - still the dreaded bindweed comes through.
Just keep digging it up!!