[AT] Field bindweed or morning glory

[charlie hill]

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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