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Killing Ivy
Hi everyone,
I have a problem in my back garden with ivy growing over a fence, and the ivy is now starting to strangle some of my plants. I've been trying to cut back the ivy every year but it's and endless task and it's starting to win the battle. I've tried Round-Up but all that did was kill the parts I could spray - not the whole plant. Spraying the entire ivy isn't possible because it's growing too close to my other plants. The ivy 'lives' next door (which is why I haven't just cut it down) so I'm looking for ways to kill off the ivy without trespassing !! Please help ! |
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Pioden wrote:
Hi everyone, I have a problem in my back garden with ivy growing over a fence, and the ivy is now starting to strangle some of my plants. I've been trying to cut back the ivy every year but it's and endless task and it's starting to win the battle. I've tried Round-Up but all that did was kill the parts I could spray - not the whole plant. Spraying the entire ivy isn't possible because it's growing too close to my other plants. The ivy 'lives' next door (which is why I haven't just cut it down) so I'm looking for ways to kill off the ivy without trespassing !! Please help ! There's not much hope for a permanent cure. The best you can legally do is rip or chop off any bits which come across to your side. I'd guess a brutal treatment twice (once isn't enough) a year would save your plants, though. Cut surfaces can be painted with a brushwood killer called SBK: but you don't want any of that on your skin, or dripping on your plants. Vicious stuff. I'm surprised it's actually damaging your plants, though: I'm trying to visualise what's happening. Are you on the southern side, so the ivy's always trying to get to you, and wrapping itself onto shrubs or something? -- Mike. |
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"Pioden" wrote in message ... Hi everyone, I have a problem in my back garden with ivy growing over a fence, and the ivy is now starting to strangle some of my plants. The ivy 'lives' next door (which is why I haven't just cut it down) so I'm looking for ways to kill off the ivy without trespassing !! Please help ! One word: dynamite. -- Brian Sig: I have nothing more to say |
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Pioden wrote:
Hi everyone, I have a problem in my back garden with ivy growing over a fence, and the ivy is now starting to strangle some of my plants. I've been trying to cut back the ivy every year but it's and endless task and it's starting to win the battle. I've tried Round-Up but all that did was kill the parts I could spray - not the whole plant. Spraying the entire ivy isn't possible because it's growing too close to my other plants. The ivy 'lives' next door (which is why I haven't just cut it down) so I'm looking for ways to kill off the ivy without trespassing !! Please help ! I have exactly the same problem. I hacked back to the fence line and down to fence height with a powered hedge trimmer a couple of years ago. Now I spray anything that appears with a strong glyphosate (roundup or similar) when the leaves a still soft and light green. The ivy on the neighbours side does not even blink but my side is more or less clear. What I haven't tried ( we do not get on all the well as it is, why stoke the fire?) is the old bind weed trick of coiling up and bruising long lengths of ivy and tying in a plastic bag dosed with glyphosate. The idea being that until the coiled stuff dies it sits there taking poison back to the main plant and roots. pk |
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On Wed, 8 Jun 2005 15:30:40 +0000, Pioden
wrote: Hi everyone, I have a problem in my back garden with ivy growing over a fence, and the ivy is now starting to strangle some of my plants. I've been trying to cut back the ivy every year but it's and endless task and it's starting to win the battle. I've tried Round-Up but all that did was kill the parts I could spray - not the whole plant. Spraying the entire ivy isn't possible because it's growing too close to my other plants. The ivy 'lives' next door (which is why I haven't just cut it down) so I'm looking for ways to kill off the ivy without trespassing !! Please help ! Try Root-Out, or anything containing ammonium sulphamate. There is a spray now sold in many garden centres and sheds specifically for ivy, but I'm pretty sure it's just an expensive version of ammonium sulphamate. Note, ammonium sulphamate is not the same as ammonium sulphate. The latter will do the ivy nothing but good, which is not what you want. -- Chris E-mail: christopher[dot]hogg[at]virgin[dot]net |
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