[AT] Field bindweed or morning glory

[Al Jones]

Most any formulation of 2,4-D will get morning glory.
Al


On Thu, May 26, 2016 at 1:30 PM, charlie hill
<charliehill at embarqmail.com> wrote:
> In the days before herbicides we used to plow the problem grass
> areas and try to turn the roots up to the air right before a hard freeze.
> It helped but didn't solve the problem.
>
> If you want to get your fields clean and weed free, lease the place to a
> cotton farmer for about 3 years.
> They spray more than any farm operation I know of.
> our farm had all sorts of grasses and even some noxious weeds that we'd
> been fighting for about 40 years.   A few years in cotton and the place was
> as clean as high grade potting soil.
>
> Charlie
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Steve W.
> Sent: Thursday, May 26, 2016 11:58 AM
> To: Antique tractor email discussion group
> Subject: Re: [AT] Field bindweed or morning glory
>
> Cecil Bearden wrote:
>> Anyone have a magic bullet for field bindweed or Morning Glory?  I baled
>> some hay back during the drought a few years ago and brought the blasted
>> stuff into my fields.   I am trying to get the most pasture off my wheat
>> after I cut it for hay and the bindweed just keeps growing.  Between the
>> bindweed and the Musk Thistles, I can't afford to keep spraying.  The
>> wet cool spring has given the weeds a real boost.
>>
>> Cecil in OKla
>>
>
> There is a mite that you could try. Other than that spray is about the
> only solution. Unless you can get a belly scraper in there and strip to
> below the roots, then burn it out of the dirt. It will grow back from
> any fragments left, seeds, rhizomes, stems, roots. It digs in like a
> politician...
>
> --
> Steve W.
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