Grrrrrrrrrr I am fed up! Any gardeners out there!

[Maelbrigda]

Yes I loved it. Never knew it was morning glory, which I have used a a magical herb. I loved the way it had little tendrils that climbed its way up.

[suesjools]

Oh is that what it is? I've always thought morning glory was just lovely, you might want to leave it, unless it interferes with your mojo.

Best wishes for many sales to all,

[bluebedouin]

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Just brushing up on the words before I dance naked around my rapidly spreading Ground elder .....

Pictures or it didn't happen.

[bluebedouin]

As far as the Morning Glory goes,haven't seen one for years.

[cambrensis]

Oh is that what it is? I've always thought morning glory was just lovely, you might want to leave it, unless it interferes with your mojo.

Best wishes for many sales to all,

Unfortunately the name "Morning Glory" is applied to dozens of different look alikes, not necessarily all convolvuli, so two people may be discussing different plants with different survival characteristics.

The bindweed this thread started with has to be dug out, often over many seasons; it can help to go back over the area with a weed wand, a type of long blowlamp, but there is no easy cure for the stuff.,

[HerMajesty]

I agree with cam.....morning glories are large flowering vines with various color flowers available....nice on trellises or porches. Bindweed is a noxious (meaning invasive and overpowering to other plants) weed............tho it has similar, smaller shaped flowers and leaves. It is generally a ground traveller....tho it will climb bushes and trees if available. It doesn't get as tall as morning glory. It's really hard to get rid of, as it is extremely hardy, and the roots go deeeeeeeeep. New plants can start from seed or tiny bits of root deep in the soil. We don't have any at our place here, but I know in Colorado it was such a nuisance. Tolerates drouth and floods and dark of night!!

[tpypr]

I'm happy to find that Morning Glories are just similar in nature to and not actually bindweed itself. Everyone I know appreciates their beauty. Now Johnson grass, on the other hand, is the bane of both gardeners and those who wish to have an attractive lawn year-round.

It's growth has a ragged aspect to it to begin with, so it does not offer the "carpeted" appearance of other grasses. It has a very extensive and invasive root system, whereby one must first loosen the soil, then pull gently on the Johnson grass, lifting it up and out slowly so as not to leave broken-off pieces of root system in the soil. It readily chokes out any and all other competing plant life, is resistant to pesticides and, during the winter months, presents a nasty-looking brown appearance. It is not my game so I can only take the word of members of the local golf course when they told me the entire course is comprised of yes, you guessed, Johnson grass!!! It is used because of its "durability". Durability? Well, they are right about that!!!

One afternoon, in the midst of pulling out Johnson grass from my garden "plot" which was, in actuality, a very large portion of the back yard, performing this back-breaking work after spending the entire morning laboriously loosening the soil via garden fork, I absolutely needed to take a well-deserved break and, thinking to kill two birds with one stone, headed to Wal Mart, relaxing a very sore back in my car's front seat on the way, on a mission to purchase something from the garden department,

I don't remember what I was looking for but I do remember that, as I was looking for "it", I chanced to walk by the shelving containing bags of lawn seed. I glanced down, walked a step or two forward, then stopped and hesitantly turned around and retraced my steps. Yes, my eyes had indeed not deceived me. There it was, right in front of me, a ten-pound bag of Johnson grass seed!!!

[poppa501]

Wait till you have to deal with Kudzu!

[thephotoshoponebid]

We have it too; laying down cardboard and a mulch helps, or buy some permeable membrane and plant through it. We don't dig our garden, but hoe off regularly and apply a compost mulch in spring - regular hoeing is faster than digging, thats a job for the worms! now if you want a treatise on making compost....

[HerMajesty]

tpypr...............do you mean Jimson weed perchance?? It's terrible.........and a bindweed. Johnson grass is a sorghum grass....looks grassy.