Does anybody know what this is???

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Permalink Reply by Ellina Winstok on July 1, 2009 at 12:32pm

Try digging to check for bulbs. Looks like sweet potato.

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Permalink Reply by John Walker on July 1, 2009 at 12:43pm

look like morning glories...
get out the roundup
oops sorry wrong forum
pull 'em up and throw on the compost.
unless you want to go trippin' they are not edible

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Permalink Reply by Maria Schultz on July 1, 2009 at 1:14pm

I am actually making the area into a garden for the first time this year... Never had morning glory before either...
Sweet potato would be more probable, but does it grow without being planted?

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Permalink Reply by Judie Artman on July 1, 2009 at 4:29pm

I think it's bindweed, or wild morning glory, which can be spread by animals and is a perennial that will grow into a thick, dense mat that will wrap its tendrils around any living thing and choke it to death. I battled this in my community garden years ago. Good luck.

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Permalink Reply by PiscesGirl on July 1, 2009 at 4:24pm

It looks like the bindweed that we get alot of around here, which some people call morning glory or wild morning glory.
Pull it quick, but don't throw it in your compost. The stuff is horrible! It will swallow your yard if left to it's own devices.

Good luck! :)
Chelle

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Permalink Reply by Angie Knost on July 1, 2009 at 5:30pm

I'm with Chelle & Judie...it's bindweed and it's quite the buggar to get rid of! Roots can sometimes be up to 6 ft. deep. Keep pulling the tops and the plants strength will diminish. Bindweed is usually seen whenever you disrupt the soil - unfortunately! You actually could compost the stuff if you let it dry out in the sun for a while before adding it to the pile.

Angie

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Permalink Reply by chris w on July 1, 2009 at 11:30pm

Bind weed is also called wild morning glory or perenial morning glory, not to be confused with the morning glories which are usually grown as annuals. Annual morning glories are wonderful plants. Bind weed has a white or pinkish flower and can be very pretty.

This plant actually looks like what I've learned as Pennyroyal. It resembles the morning glories but does not have flowers that are very visible. I know they must flower but I don't remember ever seeing one! They have small green seeds that grow almost immediately and it spreads horribly fast.

Wikipedia has what I have learned as catnip called pennyroyal..... confusing. oh, well.

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Permalink Reply by John Walker on July 2, 2009 at 6:46am

Don't eat pennyroyal though. It brings down women's courses (coarses) ie an abortifact. Well the european version does...

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Permalink Reply by sandra anderson on July 3, 2009 at 7:54am

It is actually the oil that is used in this way. The oil can also cause irreverable kidney damage. Therefore the oil should never be used without the dierction of a trained herbalist.
Fresh used in hot infusions, such as tea..it is beneficial.
Pennyroyal is a member of the mint family...it smells very strongly of mint.
It is the smell that makes it a good flea repellant.

the picture below is pennyroyal.

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Permalink Reply by Maria Schultz on July 3, 2009 at 7:10am

You can say horribly fast again!!!
It's ALL over. I have an area that is full of trees I don't have the heart to take down, this weed comes in from there and takes over the entire property!!!
It's now in the front yard too. It grows so fast from one day to the other it takes over.
Does anyone have a good solution? Keep in mind it's .85 acre of bind weed... also poyson ivy and blackberries...
It's all weeds here!!!

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Permalink Reply by TAR HEEL on July 4, 2009 at 11:27am

try to trace the vine/s back to their source,..the earth.It has to be rooted SOMEWHERE. Maybe the neighbors backyard, take a machete(be careful) cut it off at the ground.Eventually the vine will die. the roots are a diff. matter. I'm sure your not digging up the entire lot. I'ts a start. You have a fight on your hands, just be glad its not kudzu. be VERY glad.

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Permalink Reply by Maria Schultz on July 4, 2009 at 2:09pm

I'm not sure I should be glad yet, Tar Heel,
I seem to have binding weed, poyson ivy, strangle weed, black raspberries and all other plages of gardeners... What does kudzu look like? Maybe I have it too...

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