[AT] Field bindweed or morning glory

[Mike M]

Don't know about Paraquat, Charlie, I know it's nasty stuff. I recently 
was able to buy Diquat however which I believe is a close cousin to 
Paraquat.

Mike M


On 5/27/2016 1:20 PM, charlie hill wrote:
> Is Paraquat still legal?
>
> Charlie
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Cecil Bearden
> Sent: Thursday, May 26, 2016 10:39 PM
> To: Antique tractor email discussion group
> Subject: Re: [AT] Field bindweed or morning glory
>
> 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...
>>>
>>> --
>>> Steve W.
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