"Pete C" wrote in message
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JCYates wrote:
Can anyone help please?
I have masses of ivy that keeps encroaching on my garden. There used
to be some commercial products to kill ivy but I understand they are
no longer available. Does anyone have any suggestions how I can kill
it- or at the very best give it a severe headache to discourage it?

Many thanks

John
Execution/castration!
A pair of shears used with enthusiasm to control, or cut it off at the
base for a permanent solution.

I did that - cut off the base, leaving a couple of inches between the stump
and the stem. I also cut off all the leaves forom the stems but because they
were twisted and decorative i left them, in fact I sprayed them bronze.

Leaves began to appear on the stems a few weeks later. There's still a large
gap at the base of the stem - no Earthly root system - but it's covered with
green now.

Heigh ho ...

Mary