[AT] Field bindweed or morning glory

[Grant Brians]

On 5/26/2016 7:39 PM, Cecil Bearden wrote:
> the bindweed here is very resistant to most of the usual chemicals.  I
> have a friend who has a house where I think this may have come from.  He
> has it growing up in the window moldings and inside the house.  He has
> used roundup, 2,4,D, and many others to try to kill it.  The builder did
> not clear off much before building and the farmer who had it gave up
> trying to raise wheat and sold it to a developer.  I baled some of his 5
> acres the first year he moved it, and that is where I think it came
> from.  We never had it before in the last 35 years.
> Cecil in OKla
>
>
> On 5/26/2016 8:21 PM, Al Jones wrote:
>> 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...
>>>
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>>> Steve W.
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Here in California, there are several management techniques. First, as 
noted Roundup will not touch it and as you noted, Cecil, 2-4-D won't 
either. There are some very expensive chemicals that are out there that 
can kill it, but the seeds still germinate. What we Organic farmers here 
do is to rip the field where the Morning Glory / Field Bindweed is with 
a ripper that has the wide points. This breaks roots and dries the soil. 
If the soil is literally dry for long enough all of the plant parts that 
are in the dry zone die and recovery if at all will be very slow. As a 
chemical farmer, this technique would allow you to do many fewer sprays 
and probably eliminate the pesky weed.

              Grant Brians - Hollister,California farmer of vegetables, 
herbs, edible flowers, nuts and fruit