Need a product to put on flower beds that will kill bindweed but not the flowers.?

Saw something on TV guaranteed to work but didn't get name.

Need a product to put on flower beds that will kill bindweed but not the flowers.?
A Yahoo search for "bindweed eradication" (include the quotation marks in the search box) yields 27 results. If you do the same search, and are willing to spend a little time exploring, I'm sure that you will quickly find the information you seek.





Good luck with your search.
Reply:Geez, anybody can do a search on google.. you should have done that in the first place if you didn't want to choose a better answer Report It

Reply:You have a problem. Any chemical that will kill the bindweed will also kill the flowers if it gets on them unless someone has invented a magic weed killer I haven't heard of. Also they are perennials so if you don't kill them this year they'll be back next year. They spread by roots and seeds. There really isn't an easy answer to your problem. Basically you have to weed them by hand and when you do loosen the soil with a hand trowel so you can get all the roots--if you leave any behind they can come up next year from what was left behind.





Next year, as soon as you see them start digging them out. Don't let them get established. It's a lot of work but your alternative is a chemical spray that will kill your flowers too.
Reply:Preen will not kill your flowers and is advertised on TV. Preen and green will also fertilize.
Reply:If there was a product out there that just killed the plants you didn't want, whoever invented it would be a gazillionaire!!!





There are no herbicides that will selectively remove weeds out of flower beds without hurting your good plants. A suggestion that I have is to get a bottle of RoundUp... pull the roots of the bindweed and place it in the bottle. The plant will take up the RoundUp and circulate it through its system and eventually kill the plant. You can put more than one root in at a time. It won't hurt your other plants (make sure the bottle doesn't tip over) becasue RoundUp is what we call a systemic herbicide.





If you can, hand weeding is probably your best bet. It gives you 100% weed control! Bindweed is a real pain. I have puilled a lot of it in my day! You've got to get every little piece or it will just root back into the ground. This is why you shoud try the RoundUp idea!
Reply:just Glyphosate (round up) but paint iy directly on the plant so u don't get over spray try on a sunny day in the morning to give it time to do its thang!
Reply:cover open soil with garden mulch when the weed starts to show through pull out in time it will work once vine weed gets set in you have problems if garden is established
Reply:Peed I think is the name.
Reply:I hate to inform you, but what you're looking for does not exist at this point in time. The botanists that work for the chemical companies have not been able to create chemicals that differentiate between broadleaf plants. Being as bindweed and (most) flowers are broadleaf plants...what kills one, kills both. This means you're going to have to hand-pull the bindweed. You might be able to rid yourself of this noxious weed with a pre-emergent. This will take more than a few weeks to work and you won't be able to grow plants from seed in this bed for a few weeks afterward. Ask your local nursery about corn gluten meal and when to apply. This will stop most of the seeds from germinating. It may take 2-3 annual applications to exterminate the bindweed. You can probably find a chemical pre-emergent as well.