Gardening Question

[grandmoon]

How do I get rid of ivy ?

It is coming through the fence from next doors beside their garage.

Any ideas please.

[cherry*135]

It is a problem.

I am the one with the ivy roots on my side of the fence, can't kill it, leased house. The neighbours are all part of the same body corporate and haven't complained.

I would love to kill it.  The fence is on a retaining wall so the top of it is quite high up and the ivy gravitates towards the soffitts.  I try and to keep it clear of attaching it self to those and ruining the paintwork.

There are many stems of it at the base taking of in different directions, attached to the wooden fence with suckers.

[bluecat*dancing]

And, don't get me started on Wandering Jew.! Horrible stuff that keeps coming back, again and again and again.

Years and years ago our fences were being held up by ivy so when the time came to finally put up new fences, the ivy needed to be removed. It was a horrible job and took 5 of us to get rid of it by digging it up.

[siggie-reported-by-alarmists]

If you want to kill it, and be done with it, don't waste your time with round up.... it will grow back.

Use a "path finder weed killer" or "once a year path finder"....spray all along the space between  the fence and garage.

These products will kill the Ivy, and sterilize the soil for at least 12 months.... nothing will grow there during that time. (Carefully).

Clearly the neighbour doesn't want the Ivy.... neither do you.

[imastawka]

I think ivy is like bamboo.

The only way to get rid of it is to MOVE!!!!

[purple_haize]

We have had success with pouring boiling water onto wandering dew, next door neighbours had it everywhere, you need to do it a few times, but it works!

[siggie-reported-by-alarmists]

I've used boiling water as a weed killer...it works.... but in the next few days a new one will grow in it's place. It doesn't sterilise the soil.

It' great for garden beds.... as it won't ruin your soil or poison your plants..... you still need a steady hand though....lol.

I'm getting ready to attack nutgrass with a paintbrush and vinegar...... it loves everything else....I still want the couch to survive....

Yet again...... still need a steady hand....

[cherry*135]

Boiling water is good for small weeds coming up between pavers too. I do use weed spray sometimes too.

[joz*garage]

geeze all this mumbo jumbo

you just spray it with weed killer, it's a weed! once it dries up and shrivels up into nothing, and if new shoots sprout..you just spray it again

how hard is it?! 

[cherry*135]

Have you killed ivy that way, joz?

Its pretty hard to get rid of.

I  cut back & sprayed weed killer on a spikey long leaf plant (an iris plant, I think) that is planted too close to the edge of the garden. The spray had no effect at all! Leaves too tough to absorb it?

Further down the garden a tall rosemary plant is half dead, it must have got some spray on it, when I was spraying weeds near it. Although I have done that before and it never affected the rosemary. 

[joz*garage]

it's probably best not to cut back or handle the plant, am3 (unless you wear safety protection

i would spray my yard against weeds with weed killer as per instructions of the bottlle, but ivy did persist when i first shifted here

all i needed to do was get back to the plant (or plants that still survived) saturate them with a stronger solution a 50/50 mix

(of course you choose a day when it's not windy)

if you saturate the leaves it will be more effective and will do the job