I know I can cut it, But do I start at the top or start at the ones that hanging down on the sides. I cant take them anymore . Any suggestions would be appreciated.
2006-09-19 06:00:43 · 7 answers · asked by IrishChick 2 in Home & Garden ➔ Garden & Landscape
The beat way to kill anything green outdoors, and cheap as well. VINEGAR. Cut away from the garage or spray right at the roots..You will see the the results the next day.
2006-09-19 06:24:14 · answer #1 · answered by Spongebob 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Why do you want to cut it down? It causes no real damage to the structure, and it helps insulate it from the elements (cooler in the summer, warmer in the winter).
If you really want to get rid of it, I would do it over the course of several weeks. I would at first cut back loose and hanging vines.
Once that is done, I would spray it with a stronger than normal concentration of round-up, or use regular strength brush-B-gone.
Give it the recommended time to work. It's important that the product get to the roots and kills it there. If you cut it too soon, the foliage will die, but the poison won't be moved to the root zone.
Once the top dies back, and the recommend wait time has passed, cut the vines off of the walls and roof. You may want to have the "trunks" removed professionally so that you can plant near there again, and not have to dig through decomposing roots.
I hope that this helps
Good luck-
2006-09-19 14:23:04 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
It is hard work, but I hate overgrown ivy too, so I think it's totally worth it. If you're worried about chemicals and prefer organic methods, pour vinegar on the base, on the roots, trunks, whatever you can get to. If you don't care, use Round Up or ask your local nursery or garden center professionals what they recommend. When it starts to die back, just start hacking. You can, as someone else said, get professional help removing the trunks, if they're that big. Or if you can wait a couple years, let them decompose in the ground. It'll be good for the soil.
And if you want any little ivy plants in the future, just grow them in pots. Ivy in the ground spreads too fast and chokes out everything in its path.
2006-09-19 15:32:07 · answer #3 · answered by luckylab8 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
take a main steam and place it in either a ziploc bag filled with roundup or a small can with slit in lid. fill with roundup up and place where pets wont bother it and wont spill give it about a week if real large you may use several bags on different steams. this allows it to get to the roots not just kill the surface of the plant. after a week or 2 just cut it off starting at bottom.
2006-09-19 15:53:20 · answer #4 · answered by zoranth 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I'd use a spike to puncture the ground and pour round up! Make sure thereis nothing else you don't want dead though!
2006-09-19 13:09:54 · answer #5 · answered by Trisha 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
spray a little round up on them and then wait a few days...then start cutting stuff down...It will all be dead and it won't come back.
2006-09-19 13:08:31 · answer #6 · answered by john d 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
weedkiller with glusophate in it at garden centres
2006-09-19 13:09:29 · answer #7 · answered by Edward B 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋