Bindweed in confined spaces

[HeyWayne]

Along the back of our garden we have a kind of 'trough' made of old railway sleepers, 2-3 sleepers long and about a foot and a half deep. Along the back of it we have bamboo fence panels, and then behind that is a load of Beech that grows above the fence.

Within the trough I have quite close planting - currently housing Grape Hyacinth, Tulips, Daffs (dying back), an Astilbe, Sweet Peas and a few other plants I can't remember. In amongst all this I have loads of bindweed growing up and in amongst the existing plants.

In previous years I have painted them with this red gel stuff and it's worked wonders - however, I can't seem to find this stuff anywhere, and I presume it's not available any more.

Spraying with Glypho isn't really a possibility because of the dense planting, so I tried painting the glypho on neat. The bindweed seems to be 'yellowing', but still appear (on the face of it) to be growing.

Anyone with any bright ideas of how I may get rid?

[Glutton4...]

Glypho takes a good couple of weeks to work. But it will work - eventually. Only apply on a dry day with no chance of rain for at least two hours. You could try asking a local farmer if they'd let you have some of the industrial strength Amenity Glyphosate. But you're not supposed to do that!

I read recently (probably on here) that mixing it with wallpaper paste helps it stick to the leaf better! Someone was using it on Marestail.

I also know someone who used to put the growing tip in a saucer of Bleach, and managed to kill every last piece. Not very environmentally friendly though.

Have fun!

[HeyWayne]

I just read somewhere about the wallpaper paste thing - though it was suggested using glypho powder, which I've never heard of.

Might do the paste thing at the weekend.

I painted it on neat on a non windy day, with no rain forecast, but it still runs off the leaves. The wallpaper paste thing might do the trick - bugger really because I threw out some old wallpaper paste a few weeks ago.

[Glutton4...]

I think the Glypho powder must be quite easy to get (I've never tried) as one of my customers prefers to water it on to patches of weed, rather than spray it. Probably because she lives on a windy slope.

[pipkins]

Try crushing the leaves a bit Wayne is meant to help with absorption.

[Jeanied]

I remember seeing a gardening programme tip - encourage it to grow up a cane first to get a certain amount of leaf area before applying the glyphosate. On the lottie I have sprayed it onto the plant after isolating it in a funnel made from a plastic lemonade bottle - it did kill that bit but there was too much to do to control it all that way.
I'll watch this thread with interest HW because my raised beds in my garden are full of the stuff growing in amongst my precious perennials.

[Paulottie]

Yeah, I have a similar method...encourage it up cane then stuff whole lo into plastic bag spray with glyphosate stick a laccy band on it to stop transfer and to keep it in contact with foliage.

[Alison]

I just pull the stuff out, a bit every time I go past and it keeps it from getting too much of a hold.