"Pete C" wrote in message
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Mary Fisher wrote:
"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
We've all seen plants growing from cracks in walls. I guess your ivy is
getting nutrients the same way. It was a couple of years before I finally
got the last of mine off the wall.

Of course. But my point was that simply cutting the stem off by its
bootlaces isn't necessarily the answer :-)

Mary