Janet Tweedy wrote:

Can I shred Ivy and put it in the compost?

Absolutely - great stuff.

I mean is it likely to grow again from little bits like ground elder?

No.

I've been down the tip with six estate carloads so far!

Such a shame!

There's masses, making the hawthorns at the bottom of the garden,top heavy.

I pulled down a similarly vast amount (when un-shredded) from some trees
in my garden a few weeks ago. Combined with a large amount of grass,
and smaller amounts of elder, ash and various other shredded prunings,
it's got a new heap off to a great start.

I think ivy is my new favourite thing to shred. You get masses of it,
it comes in handy long branches letting it get drawn into the shredder,
and even two inch thick 'woody' stems are soft enough not to trouble the
shredder.

Felt a bit guilty ripping down all the ivy, just starting to produce
berries for the birds over winter, but there's masses more I didn't get,
and there's so much more light getting to the beds below now. For that
matter, two of the trees it was growing through were hawthorn and elder
and I don't think there will be a shortage of berries this year.

Turned the new heap for the third time this weekend, and already I
didn't recognise anything in it as being ivy.

Regards,

Peter