Don't put it off! It will take over your entire yard in no time! I
regularly fight the ivy that invades my wooded backyard all the time.
Goes all over. Up the trees. Over the ground. Into the bushes. I cleared
this whole area in April 2004 and today it looks like I never touched it.

I have a number of fighting methods. Which method I use depends of how
much energy I have at the time... The best way: weedeater down to where
you just see the long vines, then pull and cut, pull and cut... Then if
you don't KEEP it pulled, you can do this again in about 1 year.

The areas where I have the best control, I just weedeater it into a nice
edge. Don't let it get any further.

I have not used the weed killers as where I see that done, it still
leaves a mess. A big dead mess.

Once you have it growing, it is a constant job of vigilance to see that
it stays contained. You will never get rid of it!!!! I should have
worked my backyard in the spring of this year and I am paying for that now.

William Brown wrote:
My neighbour put in some ivy a few years ago, and it is migrating into
my yard. It actually looks nice in a small wooded area I have, and
tumbling over a stone wall separating the wooded area from the lawn, but
now it is starting into the lawn.

We tried pulling it up, but it has fairly strong roots, and that is
obviously only a temporary fix.

I have some Kleenup vegetation killer in my arsenal, but the label on
that says applying it to the leaves will kill everything, including the
roots, and I'm thinking it might kill everything back into my
neighbour's yard, while I would be happy just to control the ivy so it
stays out of my grass.

Is there an easy effective way to control this before it gets across my
lawn into my garden? I have some other invasive plantings, like bee
balm and mint, that I have been able to control with barriers, but this
ivy just goes up and over the barrier.