"Dcjtee" wrote in message
...
How best can I treat this?

Just cut the stem at ground level. It will die in a few weeks.

Dave

The top growth will die of, but the roots will resprout.........
Jenny

"Dcjtee" wrote in message
...
How best can I treat this?

Just cut the stem at ground level. It will die in a few weeks.

Dave

The top growth will die of, but the roots will resprout.........
Jenny

On Thu, 1 Apr 2004 17:58:15 +0200, "JennyC" wrote:


"Dcjtee" wrote in message
...
How best can I treat this?

Just cut the stem at ground level. It will die in a few weeks.

Dave

The top growth will die of, but the roots will resprout.........
Jenny

And it'll look horrible in the meantime - a lazy way of doing the job,
and it doesn't stay done that way. As for the op's bindweed, I've been
doing some tentative experiments in places where I'm happy to
accomodate Ivy but where there's other stuff amongst it that I want
rid of. Ivy is hard to kill with Glyphosate based weedkillers so I've
been spraying the nettles etc and afi can see the Ivy has come to no
harm so we're going to try it on a bigger scale this season.

Rod

Weed my email address to reply
http://website.lineone.net/~rodcraddock/index.html

On Thu, 1 Apr 2004 17:58:15 +0200, "JennyC" wrote:


"Dcjtee" wrote in message
...
How best can I treat this?

Just cut the stem at ground level. It will die in a few weeks.

Dave

The top growth will die of, but the roots will resprout.........
Jenny

And it'll look horrible in the meantime - a lazy way of doing the job,
and it doesn't stay done that way. As for the op's bindweed, I've been
doing some tentative experiments in places where I'm happy to
accomodate Ivy but where there's other stuff amongst it that I want
rid of. Ivy is hard to kill with Glyphosate based weedkillers so I've
been spraying the nettles etc and afi can see the Ivy has come to no
harm so we're going to try it on a bigger scale this season.

Rod

Weed my email address to reply
http://website.lineone.net/~rodcraddock/index.html

JennyC wrote:
"Paul Stephens" paulNO wrote in message
...
The reason I asked is that in the Summer it encroaches on the new
patio I have built and seems to work it's way into the middle of
the
garden. I also to also get some horrible trailing stuff with white
flowers that seems to stick and wrap itself around everything - is
that bind weed?

Sounds like it.

I guess the hard pruning is the option. You're right, it would look
better than bare fence panels and I think it's actually holding the
fence together, which is pretty rotten!
Thnx Paul

You can be really brutal with it - it will come back

Not if you are REALLY brutal with it.
big evil grin

--
ned

JennyC wrote:
"Paul Stephens" paulNO wrote in message
...
The reason I asked is that in the Summer it encroaches on the new
patio I have built and seems to work it's way into the middle of
the
garden. I also to also get some horrible trailing stuff with white
flowers that seems to stick and wrap itself around everything - is
that bind weed?

Sounds like it.

I guess the hard pruning is the option. You're right, it would look
better than bare fence panels and I think it's actually holding the
fence together, which is pretty rotten!
Thnx Paul

You can be really brutal with it - it will come back

Not if you are REALLY brutal with it.
big evil grin

--
ned

Paul Stephens wrote:

Hi

I'm pretty new to gardening and was wondering if someone might help. The
fence at the bottom of my garden is covered in some sort of ivy all year
round. It's beginning to grow more rapidly now and in the summer it's
rampant. How best can I treat this?

http://www.funnyphoto.plus.com/garden/garden1.jpg

http://www.funnyphoto.plus.com/garden/garden2.jpg

Thanks in advance.

Paul

(I'm in Hertfordshire))


Just reading through the thread, looks like you're pretty well sorted..
Ivy is GREAT stuff, just very advantageous/successful, so much so that
it sometimes upsets humans

That said its an incredibly good air purifier (according to NASA
research) and a superb bird and bee plant (it flowers on its 'adult'
growth which is very different from the climbing spreading type..

It 'looks' like it may have gone arborescent (adult 'tree like' ) on the
tree.. Take a look at the leaves, and see if they look like this:
http://instruct1.cit.cornell.edu/cou...rt400/juv1.jpg

If you did want to try and replace it with something more interesting,
why not introduce some 'cultvated' Ivies.. of which there is a wide
choice:

http://www.fibrex.co.uk/ and see Hedera Collection


Cheers

Jim
North London, England, UK

Paul Stephens wrote:

Hi

I'm pretty new to gardening and was wondering if someone might help. The
fence at the bottom of my garden is covered in some sort of ivy all year
round. It's beginning to grow more rapidly now and in the summer it's
rampant. How best can I treat this?

http://www.funnyphoto.plus.com/garden/garden1.jpg

http://www.funnyphoto.plus.com/garden/garden2.jpg

Thanks in advance.

Paul

(I'm in Hertfordshire))


Just reading through the thread, looks like you're pretty well sorted..
Ivy is GREAT stuff, just very advantageous/successful, so much so that
it sometimes upsets humans

That said its an incredibly good air purifier (according to NASA
research) and a superb bird and bee plant (it flowers on its 'adult'
growth which is very different from the climbing spreading type..

It 'looks' like it may have gone arborescent (adult 'tree like' ) on the
tree.. Take a look at the leaves, and see if they look like this:
http://instruct1.cit.cornell.edu/cou...rt400/juv1.jpg

If you did want to try and replace it with something more interesting,
why not introduce some 'cultvated' Ivies.. of which there is a wide
choice:

http://www.fibrex.co.uk/ and see Hedera Collection


Cheers

Jim
North London, England, UK

"Paul Stephens" wrote in message
...
Hi

I'm pretty new to gardening and was wondering if someone might help. The
fence at the bottom of my garden is covered in some sort of ivy all year
round. It's beginning to grow more rapidly now and in the summer it's
rampant. How best can I treat this?

Move.

Next question?

:-))

--
Brian
"Don't be afraid of playing the fool, or of letting go, or of not being
dignified, or of not being pretty, or of not being conventional, or of
thinking that someone will laugh"

"Paul Stephens" wrote in message
...
Hi

I'm pretty new to gardening and was wondering if someone might help. The
fence at the bottom of my garden is covered in some sort of ivy all year
round. It's beginning to grow more rapidly now and in the summer it's
rampant. How best can I treat this?

Move.

Next question?

:-))

--
Brian
"Don't be afraid of playing the fool, or of letting go, or of not being
dignified, or of not being pretty, or of not being conventional, or of
thinking that someone will laugh"

Paul Stephens wrote:

Hi

I'm pretty new to gardening and was wondering if someone might help. The
fence at the bottom of my garden is covered in some sort of ivy all year
round. It's beginning to grow more rapidly now and in the summer it's
rampant. How best can I treat this?

http://www.funnyphoto.plus.com/garden/garden1.jpg

http://www.funnyphoto.plus.com/garden/garden2.jpg

Thanks in advance.

Paul

(I'm in Hertfordshire))


Just reading through the thread, looks like you're pretty well sorted..
Ivy is GREAT stuff, just very advantageous/successful, so much so that
it sometimes upsets humans

That said its an incredibly good air purifier (according to NASA
research) and a superb bird and bee plant (it flowers on its 'adult'
growth which is very different from the climbing spreading type..

It 'looks' like it may have gone arborescent (adult 'tree like' ) on the
tree.. Take a look at the leaves, and see if they look like this:
http://instruct1.cit.cornell.edu/cou...rt400/juv1.jpg

If you did want to try and replace it with something more interesting,
why not introduce some 'cultvated' Ivies.. of which there is a wide
choice:

http://www.fibrex.co.uk/ and see Hedera Collection


Cheers

Jim
North London, England, UK

"Paul Stephens" wrote in message
...
Hi

I'm pretty new to gardening and was wondering if someone might help. The
fence at the bottom of my garden is covered in some sort of ivy all year
round. It's beginning to grow more rapidly now and in the summer it's
rampant. How best can I treat this?

Move.

Next question?

:-))

--
Brian
"Don't be afraid of playing the fool, or of letting go, or of not being
dignified, or of not being pretty, or of not being conventional, or of
thinking that someone will laugh"

On Thu, 01 Apr 2004 19:32:43 +0100, Rod
wrote:


Ivy is hard to kill with Glyphosate based weedkillers so I've
been spraying the nettles etc and afi can see the Ivy has come to no
harm so we're going to try it on a bigger scale this season.

Glyphosate doesn't work well (or at all) on plants with 'waxy' leaves.
It needs to be absorbed by the foliage to work on the innards, and ivy
leaves (and Vinca major) are just too repellent.

The only way to eradicate ivy is to pull it all up. It can be
'controlled' by pruning or chopping off, as in the case of patio
encroachment.

"Frogleg" wrote in message
...

Glyphosate doesn't work well (or at all) on plants with 'waxy' leaves.
It needs to be absorbed by the foliage to work on the innards, and ivy
leaves (and Vinca major) are just too repellent.

The only way to eradicate ivy is to pull it all up. It can be
'controlled' by pruning or chopping off, as in the case of patio
encroachment.

I think it works well on ivy if you stamp on the leaves/crush them with a
spade first to break the surface of the leaves. That lets the chemicals get
in.

--
Martin & Anna Sykes
( Remove x's when replying )
http://www.users.globalnet.co.uk/~sykesm

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from "Paul Stephens" paulNO contains these words:

The reason I asked is that in the Summer it encroaches on the new patio I
have built and seems to work it's way into the middle of the garden. I also
to also get some horrible trailing stuff with white flowers that seems to
stick and wrap itself around everything - is that bind weed?

Sounds like bindweed, aka convolvulus. You can kill it over a season if
you pull every shoot as it appears - I killed a matrix of its smaller
cousin like this last year.

I guess the hard pruning is the option. You're right, it would look better
than bare fence panels and I think it's actually holding the fence together,
which is pretty rotten!

It is also a preferred nesting site for sparrows.

--
Rusty
Open the creaking gate to make a horrid.squeak, then lower the foobar.
http://www.users.zetnet.co.uk/hi-fi/