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Old 21-09-2015, 12:20 PM posted to uk.rec.gardening
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Default Killing ivy

On 21/09/2015 10:55, Timothy Murphy wrote:
Chris Hogg wrote:

On Sun, 20 Sep 2015 14:28:21 +0100, Timothy Murphy
wrote:

My wife has cut down an excessively rampant ivy,
and left me to kill the stub and root.
What is the best way to do this?


Just dig it up. If the roots are rather thick, chop them off with a
spade, hand axe or grub axe, about a foot or so away from the stump.


This may be difficult, as the ivy is less than a foot from a patio.
It is in a border to the patio about 2ft or less wide.


If you can drill into the stump then drill and inject Round-up diluted
1 in 4 for stump killing.