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To ivy or not to ivy, that's the question?
On 07/05/2013 11:05, Martin Brown wrote:
On 07/05/2013 09:10, Jeff Layman wrote: On 07/05/2013 08:48, Bob Hobden wrote: "TimLondon" wrote .. Hi, should I encourage ivy to grow or does it become unmanageable? I've just bought a house that already has some but it wants to spread across the side of the house. While I think it's attractive I don't want to create a beast that'll be a headache in the future! Any thoughts welcome. Depends on the variety. If it's normal Ivy it will be difficult to control and certainly make a mess of any paintwork it gets hold of. If you pull it off it leaves it's roots attached to whatever it's clinging to. My mother had some up a wall of her house and that was one of the miniature varieties usually seen in baskets etc, which is where it came from originally, but still it was difficult to control and got onto window frames etc leaving a mess. We had the large leaved type along a very old fence for years but it was a constant headache keeping it tidyish. Ivy is easily killed by cutting it off from it's roots below ground level. Not so easy if its along 30 metres of fencing, umpteen years old, and many stems exceed 3cm in diameter. :-( Heavy grade loppers or boltcutters to cut the stems. Anyone tried strimming and damaging the leaves before spraying with nuclear-strength glyphosate? I suspect you are on a hiding to nothing. SBK Brushwood killer with I think it is a trace of light oil or paraffin is alleged to work. I know that holly and ivy seedlings survive normal glyphosate so I would expect the mature plants to barely notice it at all. I generally use physical removal... Or drill down into the thick stems and inject with neat glyphosate or neat SBK. |
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