how do u kill ivy?

Question

the plant not the woman

Answer 1

I had a huge patch of ivy in my yard and didn't think much about it until I took a class on basket weaving. Now all of my Ivy is gone and I have been raiding the neighbors yard for weaving supplies. As usual, as soon as a pest in converted into an asset, the supply decreases.

To harvest the vines, I reach under the plants and roll them all up into a big ball, cutting the roots as needed to get the ball free. Move the whole ball to the compost pile and start pulling the vines out. Strip off the leaves as you go to add to the compost. The leaves will not re-root by themselves. When you get all the vines stripped, make a basket!

Answer 2

If you do wish to permanently kill ivy then you have a lot of work ahead of you! It is very difficult to kill the entire ivy plant, and can only generally be done with a lot of hard work and persistence. Generally it is very difficult to kill an entire ivy plant by use herbicides alone. The two major factors that protect the ivy plant are its waxy leaves that prevent the uptake of the herbicide, and the other is its almost phenomenal resistance to most toxins. It is certainly possible to brown out foliage, and in some cases it will appear to have controlled the ivy plant permanently. However generally, over time, green shoots will appear out of the dead foliage. Timing of treatment is a factor, too. Different mixes of herbicides and surfactants applied at different times of the year seem to have different levels of effectiveness, the strongest herbicide that Whatprice have identified is sold by Crocus. Skill and experience of the individual applying the herbicide also seems to have an effect. The best way to apply herbicide is to paint it onto fresh cuts in the plant stems. The alternative to herbicides is to use good old manual labour. Simply remove all the ivy shoots from your trees/fences/walls , and then attack the roots! Chop the roots down as far as you can with pruning knives, axes, pruning-saws, or whatever you have handy, and then try to pull up or dig up as much of the root system as you can. If you do this thoroughly enough then you may be able to kill the ivy plant completely. Unfortunately it is rarely the case that you can attack and remove the roots completely. They may well grow under brick walls, or across your wonderfully turfed garden which you do not want to dig up completely. Therefore in most cases you will want to do a combined attack to kill the ivy. This involves cutting the ivy plant back as much as possible, and then painting any remaining exposed roots or stems with a concentrated herbicide. You may find that you have to do this several times a year, and possibly have to experiment with different herbicides before you finally kill the entire ivy plant. GOOD LUCK!

Answer 3

OMG I so needed this question answering on Friday when I started to hack all the overgrown ivy from the back and front garden! I now have 8bin liners full of the damn stuff and still not got rid of it all!!! I have been told that pouring soda crystals diluted in hot water over the roots would kill it but the trouble is it doesn't originate in my garden but over the wall and I don't know how they would react or indeed how other plants, grass etc would react to it! I think I am resigned to just pruning and lopping it away every now and again.

Answer 4

This is not a difficult job, simply dig out the main root, and pull the rest off the wall. You can then use a systemic weed killer on any new growth that you see coming up. Shouldn't be too difficult. Ivy roots are quite easy to dig out.
Professional Gardner for 30 odd yrs.

Answer 5

Two methods. Both require cutting the vine(s) at or near ground level. Then in one method, paint the stump with a weed killer that kills everything. In the second method, cover the stump out to 2 inches in a circle with rock salt after soaking the stump with chlorine bleach.

Answer 6

If it's growing up your house, cut the stem/trunk COMPLETELY near the ground and apply stump killer to the, well, stump. In due course the stuff growing up the wall will die and you can pull it off. Ivy's a b*gger to kill off completely and you may have to redo it several times before it gets the message & dies.

Answer 7

Ivy is one of the most invasive and onery plants ( weeds ) to kill. One proven method, is to cut them to ground level, then dose them with crossbow or roundup ( concentrate ). Not too much tho, got the ground water to think of... good luck.

Answer 8

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Answer 9

use a weedkiller with with glyforsayte in it and when mixing add a few drops of washing up liquid to help the it stickmto the ivy

Answer 10

Spray roundup on them, but if by spraying, you might get it on plants you don't want to kill, get a small paint brush and a little bowl of roundup and paint it on the leaves. don't do this on a windy day