I've got rid of bindweed twice. Once when I had an allotment, and once here. It takes about 4 years, pulling up every bit of bind weed, digging into the soil to get as much root out as possible, everytime it is spotted. Then once a week time spent actually searching it out.
It gets going again later in the season than most weeds, so you can think you've seen it off till one sunny spring morning there it is!
I still get it coming under my neighbour's fence, and this morning there some was, looking very strong and lively after its winter rest.
I have 3 black bins with drainage holes drilled near the bottom where I put bindweed and other nasty weeds. I empty the oldest bin in spring and use that bin for that year's weeds. If anything looks as if it hasn't rotted down enough it is popped into one of the other bins. So the bindweed pulled up today will be feeding my tomatoes in 3 years time!
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