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I keep meaning to get a packet of these, but forgot last year. We have alot of ground elder. My sister in law reckons they are very good. Kings sell them if you are interested.
~ Aerodynamically the bumblebee shouldn't be able to fly, but the bumblebee doesn't know that so it goes on flying anyway. ~ Mary Kay Ash
The only way I've found to control bindweed is digging, more digging, and more digging. If you're not worried about using chemicals then use glyphosate.
We've just put some mex marigolds into the heated prop today, seeds from Nicky's.co.uk.
rusty, we don't do glyophosphate residue survives in the soil. agree about the digging, but just wondered about mex marigolds whose roots are supposed to 'suppress them'?
Ground Elder was supposedly introduced by the Romans - in case you were wondering 'what have the Romans ever done for us'!
We've just put some mex marigolds into the heated prop today, seeds from Nicky's.co.uk.
Ground Elder was supposedly introduced by the Romans - in case you were wondering 'what have the Romans ever done for us'!
Hi Manda
If the Romans introduced Ground Elder to Britain there must be a good reason for it. ( what have the Romans ever done for us ) a lot I think, but lets try to find out the positive aspects of ground Elder.
regards
Don Vincenzo
Hi Manda
If the Romans introduced Ground Elder to Britain there must be a good reason for it. ( what have the Romans ever done for us ) a lot I think, but lets try to find out the positive aspects of ground Elder.
regards
Don Vincenzo
Lovely link, thank you SS. I've bookmarked that one.
Interestingly as a child I discovered the insides of grasses tasted nice, used to pick couch at a joint and squeeze the inside bit into my mouth. Tasted lovely and obviously helped to replace fibre missing in my diet. Parents thought I was mad for eating grass !
Well a couple of weeks ago we planted out about a dozen 6-8 inch mexican marigolds along the line of next doors fence. I've read about their supposed help in supressing bindweed/ground elder so thought I'd try it.
Well.......they certainly have an effect on the bindweed - they're using the marigolds to climb up! Lol!!! Maybe they might be more effective (as a deterrent, not as a climbing frame) when they get bigger, they grow about 3ft don't they? Hope they look pretty.
To see a world in a grain of sand
And a heaven in a wild flower
Never heard of any sort of marigolds deterring weeds, they're more usually used as companion plants to deter pests such as whitefly and greenfly. I still haven't found anything to beat bindweed other than digging out persistently or using systemic herbicide.
Last edited by rustylady; 26-05-2007, 08:33 PM.
Reason: bad spelling again
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