How does one kill ivy? Does it suffice to remove all that is visible
above ground? Will the roots then die, or will new shoots grow from the
roots? If the roots will not die by removing all of the plant above
ground, how can the roots be killed?

Tia
Jim

Just cut it back at soil level Dig out what you can.
If you keep cutting it back each time it decides to grow back it will
eventually DIE.

S
"Jim Spriggs" wrote in message
lid...
How does one kill ivy? Does it suffice to remove all that is visible
above ground? Will the roots then die, or will new shoots grow from the
roots? If the roots will not die by removing all of the plant above
ground, how can the roots be killed?

Tia
Jim

On Sun, 3 Apr 2005 16:38:05 +0000 (UTC), Jim Spriggs
wrote:

How does one kill ivy? Does it suffice to remove all that is visible
above ground? Will the roots then die, or will new shoots grow from the
roots? If the roots will not die by removing all of the plant above
ground, how can the roots be killed?

Tia
Jim

Spray it with Root Out, or any stump killer containing ammonium
sulphamate (which is not the same as ammonium sulphate!).


--
Chris

E-mail: christopher[dot]hogg[at]virgin[dot]net

Noodle Doo wrote:

Just cut it back at soil level Dig out what you can.
If you keep cutting it back each time it decides to grow back it will
eventually DIE.

Thank you. Not just "die" but "DIE"!

S
"Jim Spriggs" wrote in message
lid...
How does one kill ivy? Does it suffice to remove all that is visible
above ground? Will the roots then die, or will new shoots grow from the
roots? If the roots will not die by removing all of the plant above
ground, how can the roots be killed?

Tia
Jim

Chris Hogg wrote:

On Sun, 3 Apr 2005 16:38:05 +0000 (UTC), Jim Spriggs
wrote:

How does one kill ivy? Does it suffice to remove all that is visible
above ground? Will the roots then die, or will new shoots grow from the
roots? If the roots will not die by removing all of the plant above
ground, how can the roots be killed?

Tia
Jim

Spray it with Root Out, or any stump killer containing ammonium
sulphamate (which is not the same as ammonium sulphate!).

Ooh, I'll go shopping tomorrow! Thanks.

"Jim Spriggs" wrote in message
lid...
How does one kill ivy?

You can't.

It is the spawn of the Devil and will eventually strangle your home unless
you get an exorcist in.

--
Brian
"Anyway, if you have been, thanks for listening."

How does one kill ivy?

You can't.

It is the spawn of the Devil and will eventually strangle your home unless
you get an exorcist in.


I think you are fibbing

"Jim Spriggs" wrote in message
lid...
How does one kill ivy? Does it suffice to remove all that is visible
above ground? Will the roots then die, or will new shoots grow from the
roots? If the roots will not die by removing all of the plant above
ground, how can the roots be killed?

SBK works wonders.

--
alan

reply to alan(dot)holmes27(at)virgin(dot)net


Tia
Jim

Alan Holmes wrote:

"Jim Spriggs" wrote in message
lid...
How does one kill ivy? Does it suffice to remove all that is visible
above ground? Will the roots then die, or will new shoots grow from the
roots? If the roots will not die by removing all of the plant above
ground, how can the roots be killed?

SBK works wonders.

I have now purchased a specific ivy killer containing ammonium
sulphamate.

"Jim Spriggs" wrote in message
lid...
Alan Holmes wrote:

"Jim Spriggs" wrote in
message
lid...
How does one kill ivy? Does it suffice to remove all that is visible
above ground? Will the roots then die, or will new shoots grow from
the
roots? If the roots will not die by removing all of the plant above
ground, how can the roots be killed?

SBK works wonders.

I have now purchased a specific ivy killer containing ammonium
sulphamate.

That's sulphate.
And Sodium Chlorate is even better.

McCready wrote:
"Jim Spriggs" wrote in

I have now purchased a specific ivy killer containing ammonium
sulphamate.

That's sulphate.


I wouldn't be so sure...

http://pmep.cce.cornell.edu/profiles...amate-ext.html

John.

McCready wrote:

"Jim Spriggs" wrote in message
lid...

I have now purchased a specific ivy killer containing ammonium
sulphamate.

That's sulphate.

Oh no it isn't!

And Sodium Chlorate is even better.

I've used this on stumps wide enough to drill holes in to put the sodium
chlorate into, but the ivy stumps aren't that wide.

"Bioboffin" wrote in message
...
McCready wrote:
"Jim Spriggs" wrote in

I have now purchased a specific ivy killer containing ammonium
sulphamate.

That's sulphate.


I wouldn't be so sure...

http://pmep.cce.cornell.edu/profiles...amate-ext.html

John.

Oh! I'm sure I'm a scientist / chemist.
The yanks always spell things "let's say" differently to us British. It's
Sulphate.

McCready wrote:
"Bioboffin" wrote in message
...
McCready wrote:
"Jim Spriggs" wrote in

I have now purchased a specific ivy killer containing ammonium
sulphamate.

That's sulphate.


I wouldn't be so sure...

http://pmep.cce.cornell.edu/profiles...amate-ext.html

John.

Oh! I'm sure I'm a scientist / chemist.
The yanks always spell things "let's say" differently to us British.
It's Sulphate.

The following statement then, is rubbish?

"Ammonium sulfamate is colorless, odorless, hygroscopic, water- soluble
crystalline solid (3, 10). It is compatible with other water- soluble
herbicides or wettable powders as long as their active ingredients are not
sensitive to acids. It is incompatible with the herbicide bromacil (10).
Ammonium sulfamate is readily oxidized by bromine and chlorine, and forms
addition products with aldehydes (28). The technical grade product contains
70-90% of the active ingredient with 10-30% impurities, such as water,
ammonium salt of iminodisulfonic acid, and ammonium sulfate (13). "

Or is it possible for ammonium sulphate to be an impurity in ammonium
sulphate?

:-)

Wow, that is one good read. From Cornell University? Thanks John.
Chris