Ivy problem

Hi

We have at moment a problem with ivy growing out of control on and along our fence and woundered is there anything you can buy to restrict it or better still killing it completly off.

Also what can we use on our soil to completly kill weeds and anything else that is growing there before we rotavate it and turf it all over next easter.

rgds
paul

 

Is the ivy yours to kill off, or just one of those annoying episodes of next doors plant growing like mad in your garden?

If you don't want it there anymore at all I would start by digging out the main root of the ivy. There will be many sucker types growing, which will be easy to pull out once the main bit has gone. If you want to use a weed killer, then anything with glysophate in like round-up, is an all round kill anything.

Not seeing the weeds on the area you want to turf, I will assume that there is nothing too bad, and that we are talking dandelions and such like, and not mares tail or ground elder. I would suggest again a round-up type chemical application. You will need to do this while the weeds are actively growing, which may not leave enough time prior to turfing at Easter. One think I would recommend, that you don't let the weeds that are there now go to seed.

Hope this Helps!

 

Hi

Its what comes through our fence and over the top of the fence, we cut it back but it still grows back like mad.
we got told from a garden centre that not much will kill ivy due to it haveing glossy leaves.

The area that would be grassed easter time is old plants weeds, bits of grass etc so this would need to be cleaned up so we could get a nice lawn without anything growing back through, the grassed area is pretty big so a weed killer in bottles would be a problem so need some powder of some sort that would kill everything that was on or just in the soil area.

Also have to watch as we have big conifers thats roots run under the area that will be grassed so dont want to be damaging them with pesticides etc.

 

That's going to give you a problem with your new grass. Tree roots near the surface will rob the soil of water and nutrients, making it difficult to get grass to do well there.

 

would we need to feew and water the grass more then to keep it looking good

 

I've never tried it, but apparently there is a lawn seed mix that will do ok at the foot of trees:

http://www.nickys-nursery.co.uk/seeds/pages/grassseed.htm#Shaded Lawn

Note: I've never bought anything from this company so I can't comment about them or their products, its just to give you some ideas

 

its growing from a wild piece of land that belongs to council i think and it never gets maintained as they dont want anything to do with it so we have the problem looking at it and cutting it back that comes into our garden and grows all over our fences

 

In that case, give it a good dose of Round-Up while it is still growing. Then chop it down once it has died off.

 

tried round up before and it didnt do anything too it apart from carry on growing plus its damaging the fence panels now as had a close look today

 

I find an old wallpaper scraper usefull to strip the ivy from a flat surface like a fence.

Would anyone else recommend hopping over the fence and watering in Sodium Chlorate? Trouble with Glyphosate for ivy is that it netralises in contact with the soil and the waxy leaves restricts uptake.

 

Thats what we got told about the waxy leaves and that we would have to strip the leaves of the branches but with there being a bit of ivy would take us ages, we feel that we are just doing a job for the council but before long its going to damage our fence so need to do something about it asap, plus theres brambles also in with it so would have to watch jumping over fence

Any help much appreciated