Re: bindweed was: Odd reference to potatoes
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- Subject: Re: bindweed was: Odd reference to potatoes
- From: m* l*
- Date: Tue, 01 Feb 2000 08:09:56 -0700
At 01:01 AM 2/1/2000 -0500, you wrote:
>Try the "or more" Dean :-) Blasted roots grow down to China. Had
>occasion to move a *lot* of soil this year in a place where bindweed
>flourishes - more like quadruple digging than double digging. Picked
>roots out until I was cross-eyed - followed them down and down and
>down. And, still noticed when all was put back in place, nice little
>bindweed plants coming up from itsy bitsy fine sections of root that
>escaped my sifting. Loathsome weed, bindweed. Running neck and neck
>with Mugwort as winner of the Loathsome Weed of the Year Award.
>
>Marge Talt, zone 7 Maryland
>mtalt@clark.net
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I think bindweed wins hands down, partly because it will strangle
perennials if left alone. Now that I'm on topic, I'd like to get
subscribers' opinions on the following: I live in Boise, ID, a semi-desert
area that has hardpan in the form of caliche at depths ranging from surface
to 30 inches below surface. A former state official told me information
from one of the most important commercial farm operations led him to apply
gypsum to his soil annually. He had bindweed that he theorized stopped the
root from going deeper, but the root lay atop the caliche, spreading here
and there. After some years he had no bindweed, and his theory was that the
gypsum had ultimately killed it. I think there is some sulfur in gypsum,
although not a substantial amount. Thanks for your thoughts, Margaret L
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