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RE: Bind weed
- To: "permaculture" <permaculture@franklin.oit.unc.edu>
- Subject: RE: Bind weed
- From: "PINC" <pinc@svn.net>
- Date: Fri, 18 Aug 2000 09:03:41 -0700
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- In-reply-to: <LYR112767-73214-2000.08.18-07.25.42--pinc#svn.net@franklin.oit.unc.edu>
- Newsgroups: permaculture
Bindweed came when I imported mushroom compost into my yard (before I knew
about permaculture) and yes it was for a dastardly lawn!!!!!! (which has
since been mulched). It had spread through out my entire garden. I sheet
mulched it with cardboard and newspaper in the spring. By the time it
emerges mid summer, most of the oomph is taken out of it and it becomes a
nice green ground cover and doesn't have enough energy to twine up the
plants. Other places it has been shaded out. I have never seen it grow
vigorously under plants like comfrey and rhubarb. It also prefers compacted
soil (according to an article I read about it). Once the soil is cushy and
soft, it is easy to pull. Digging & cultivating also propagates it. We don
t' dig we only fork which lifts the roots out better. I'm sure once it's
there it will always be there but permaculture gardening methods seem to
minimize maintenance and I don't consider it a "problem" any more. I also
feed it to my chickens and they seem to like it. Geese will also eat it.
Good luck!
Penny
-----Original Message-----
From: mbgrey [mailto:MBGREY@mnp.net]
Sent: Friday, August 18, 2000 4:25 AM
To: permaculture
Subject: Re: Bind weed
It invaded in a very small strawberry patch. I covered the whole area with
black plastic about two weeks ago. The bindweed is creeping up through
edges.
--
Marty Grey
Meadow Medicinals
11795 State Route 78
Caldwell, OH 43724
MBGREY@mnp.net
From: "Mike Skinner (Easy Hay)" <EasyHay@arn.net>
Reply-To: "permaculture" <permaculture@franklin.oit.unc.edu>
Date: Thu, 17 Aug 2000 15:29:21 -0500
To: "permaculture" <permaculture@franklin.oit.unc.edu>
Subject: RE: Bind weed
Arina said.
I heard of a BD approach, that sounded this way:
3 consecutive years of pumpkins will smother the bindweed. Well, here we
also have the ferocious squash bug that will destroy all the pumpkins.
But once we move in our new house, that is choked by the bindweed from 3
sides, even some is growing up the drain inside the house, I will try a lot
of biomass and pumpkins.
Mike said:
In exasperaton, I ve tried to figure what niche bindweed was filling. To me
it seems,
that being deep-rooted, it is breaking the hard pan, bringing up nutrients,
as well
as keeping the ground from blowing as a result of clean farming or heavy
grazing.
So, by my thinking, if we stopped making hard pan, possibly deep ripped,
return
tilth, (like green manure Austrian Winter Peas), and leave cover on the
ground, we
might help Mother Nature, the same way bindweed does.
Arina said:
I think this approach may also help with the thistle - to plant deep rooted
plants that will break the soil. The bindweed, though has a different kind
of root, not the tap, but more runner type. It seems to be intimidated by a
good stand of red clover - still grows, but more modest looking, and less
brutal.
Mikešs new thought:
Arina, But, then, red clover might be pernicious. I wonder if another
viney crop, indigenous, Buffalo Gourd, would work, like pumpkins, but itšs
perennial, too.
Also, Išve used bi-annual stubble turnips, successfully, to break up
hard pan. Cost is around $4 per pound,
but the tiny seeds cover a lot of area. Austrian Winter peas are also viney
and strangle bindweed.
A smattering of kenaf or red top cane, (early sumac) or sterile hybrids,
would add height to a mix, and allow trellising, and further keep light off
the ground-hugging bindweed.
mike
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