How do I kill ivy, not just for this year, but forever?
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I read that ivy doesn't do any damage to the house. I'd be happy with ivy on my house as I'd get sparrows in there 
Do you want to remove it for cosmetic reasons Steve? Cutting the lower stems works but what's left on the house will die and just look awful until you pull it all off, bit by bit.
Do you want to remove it for cosmetic reasons Steve? Cutting the lower stems works but what's left on the house will die and just look awful until you pull it all off, bit by bit.
Simpo Two said:
Tangent Police said:
Sodium Chlorate weedkiller.
No longer sold - like all the other stuff that actually worked.Two ways:
Chemical: Roundup/glyphosate but spray it on the leaves every 10 days and repeat until dead.
Physical: dig it out.
Edited by DocJock on Monday 16th November 08:15
We managed to get rid of quite well established Ivy.
- Cut the stems off from the roots.
- Mix stump and root killer with water and put it into a freezer bag.
- Tie the bag over the freshly cut stems so they are immersed in the solution.
The Ivy will suck the mixture up and die a nasty death. Also apply to the roots.
- Cut the stems off from the roots.
- Mix stump and root killer with water and put it into a freezer bag.
- Tie the bag over the freshly cut stems so they are immersed in the solution.
The Ivy will suck the mixture up and die a nasty death. Also apply to the roots.
What I was doing yesterday on two front gates bath stoned pillars.
If you want to permanently kill ivy, then you have a lot of work ahead of you/ It is very difficult to kill just one ivy plant, and that only when the plant is continuously and vigorously pruned right back, and treated with the right herbicide in late winter conditions.
Ivy can be worse than a tree to kill, since ivy has more projecting roots, that can grow under, through and over garage, garden walls etc. etc. If you can find the main clump of roots, dig around the root, then treat the ground with oiled fuelled/mixed SBK, also hack into the ivy stem and point on the oily mixed SBK.
If you want to permanently kill ivy, then you have a lot of work ahead of you/ It is very difficult to kill just one ivy plant, and that only when the plant is continuously and vigorously pruned right back, and treated with the right herbicide in late winter conditions.
Ivy can be worse than a tree to kill, since ivy has more projecting roots, that can grow under, through and over garage, garden walls etc. etc. If you can find the main clump of roots, dig around the root, then treat the ground with oiled fuelled/mixed SBK, also hack into the ivy stem and point on the oily mixed SBK.
That was the only way I could kill a stubborn buddlia bush.Many thanks for all the replies. To answer a few points/questions:
I will use Round Up as suggested but I'd prefer to deal with it now rather than every week next year!
I'll have a look for Sodium Chlorate weedkiller, I'm sure it will be available somewhere
I can still get real old fashioned creasote (sp) locally
The house is very old, lime mortar and hand made bricks, some are as hard as granite but some are as soft as butter!
The landlords (National Trust) have decided that the ivy needs to go.
I like it, a great habitat for wildlife and birds nests.
I used to cut out a two foot section, just above the ground, each year to stop it getting to rampant.
I didn't pull any more off the wall as I know it would pull of some of the mortar/bricks.
One plant has a six inch dia. root and they are concerned about damage to the house foundations - it's a 18c part of the house and won't have any foundations
Brushwood killer & mix stump and root killer with water and put it into a freezer bag. - will give both a go.
Not possible to dig out all the roots there's to many! That's my excuse anyway!
I think someone should find out what the ivy sticky stuff is and sell it as a glue - super glue would stand a chance
"poison ivy" good one
"Nuke it from orbit?" "defoliant"
Anyone know what the US used in 'Nam
As I said thanks for all the replies - just goes to prove, again, that PH is better than Google!
I will use Round Up as suggested but I'd prefer to deal with it now rather than every week next year!
I'll have a look for Sodium Chlorate weedkiller, I'm sure it will be available somewhere
I can still get real old fashioned creasote (sp) locally
The house is very old, lime mortar and hand made bricks, some are as hard as granite but some are as soft as butter!
The landlords (National Trust) have decided that the ivy needs to go.
I like it, a great habitat for wildlife and birds nests.
I used to cut out a two foot section, just above the ground, each year to stop it getting to rampant.
I didn't pull any more off the wall as I know it would pull of some of the mortar/bricks.
One plant has a six inch dia. root and they are concerned about damage to the house foundations - it's a 18c part of the house and won't have any foundations
Brushwood killer & mix stump and root killer with water and put it into a freezer bag. - will give both a go.
Not possible to dig out all the roots there's to many! That's my excuse anyway!
I think someone should find out what the ivy sticky stuff is and sell it as a glue - super glue would stand a chance
"poison ivy" good one
"Nuke it from orbit?" "defoliant"
Anyone know what the US used in 'Nam As I said thanks for all the replies - just goes to prove, again, that PH is better than Google!
skeggysteve said:
"Nuke it from orbit?" "defoliant" Anyone know what the US used in 'Nam
Agent Orange, which was 2,4,5-T which is not unrelated to 2,4-D - which is widely available in lawn weedkillers - it's a selective phenoxyacetic - simulates plant growth regulators - plant 'proliferates to death'. Amazing how I remember all this after 25 years! Anyone know what the US used in 'Nam The problem with Agent Orange was that if you overcook it you make dioxins, which leads to birth defects.
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