"Franz Heymann" wrote in message
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"jim" wrote in message
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[snip]

In
desperation we painted each leaf with a glyphosate-type gel and
waited until
it reached the roots which would then obligingly die leaving a
useful
compost.

What a waste of glyphosate and time. During the past summer I
killed
an ivy 8 ft high by 20 ft wide stone dead with two sessions of
spraying it with glyphosate. After the leaves had dropped off, it
was
moderately easy to dismantle the stem structures.

[snip]

Oh, I forgot to say that the stem was only about 2 inches in diameter.
The ivy was approximately 10 years old.

Franz