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Anyone had much experience with keeping bindweed at bay?
We’ve just moved into a place and pulled out an absolute fuck tonne, which was consuming all the trees, bushes and ground of a roughly 4x8m area at the back of the garden.
We’ve not pulled up many of the roots yet, but will go over the entire area with a fork and get up as much of the root as we can, but I’m certain that isn’t enough.
Lots of talk in no-dig circles about just plopping some cardboard over the top as a mulch, adding compost, and planting what you like. Then going back once a week to pull out any fresh shoots to weaken the root network over time.
Can’t really go for any herbicides, nor do I want to, since it’ll kill everything else in the area in what’s a very mature garden (see image of the not-infested bit, the bindweed is all at the back but I didn’t get a picture before we ripped it out).