New house, new garden and lots and lots of ivy everywhere.

Been round cutting it of at the roots, but getting it off the
walls and particularly the wooden fences is problematic.

Any good tips please?


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Roger T

700 ft up in Mid-Wales

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Roger Tonkin writes
New house, new garden and lots and lots of ivy everywhere.

Been round cutting it of at the roots, but getting it off the
walls and particularly the wooden fences is problematic.

Any good tips please?

Cut and pull - and if that doesn't work, pull and cut.

For walls, a hoe can be used to prise most of it off.



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Ian

On 07/07/2016 20:53, Roger Tonkin wrote:
New house, new garden and lots and lots of ivy everywhere.

Been round cutting it of at the roots, but getting it off the
walls and particularly the wooden fences is problematic.

Any good tips please?


Leave it for a while, its easier once it has gone brown and crispy

--
Charlie Pridham, Gardening in Cornwall
www.roselandhouse.co.uk
National collections of Clematis viticella & Lapageria rosea

Charlie Pridham wrote:

Leave it for a while, its easier once it has gone brown and crispy

I was about to suggest that. Chop a few lumps off the thicker stems when
passing

On 08/07/2016 08:23, Robert Harvey wrote:
Charlie Pridham wrote:

Leave it for a while, its easier once it has gone brown and crispy

I was about to suggest that. Chop a few lumps off the thicker stems when
passing

That's what I did. Now its falling off with no help from me, 12 years
later that is:-)

Mike

On 07/07/2016 20:53, Roger Tonkin wrote:
New house, new garden and lots and lots of ivy everywhere.

Been round cutting it of at the roots, but getting it off the
walls and particularly the wooden fences is problematic.

Any good tips please?


Tried that, did'nt work at least in a period of a few moths. O thought
that it might be absorbing moisture from the brickwork. Sprayed the ivy
and brickwork with root out - killed it fairly quickly

This was about 10 years ago before root out was taken off the list of
approved weedkillers.

Malcolm

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New house, new garden and lots and lots of ivy everywhere.

Been round cutting it of at the roots, but getting it off the
walls and particularly the wooden fences is problematic.

Any good tips please?

Thanks, obviously just keep cutting and picking.

I've come across a patch on a wall that had obviously been cut
at the roots a long while back as is was very dry and crisp,
Sadly it is also very brittle so only tiny bits come away each
time.

The fence is a problem because the ivy leaves its little
clinging roots behind so the fence almost looks as if it is
covered with brown millipedes!

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Roger T

700 ft up in Mid-Wales