How can I kill Ivy growing in our garden?

mypie

We have recently moved into a house and at the end of the back garden there is a mass of Ivy growing - up trees in the grass on the fence etc. We were told to buy a weed killer with Glyphosate in but it costs so much to do the garden at £20 a go and its meant to be done every 2 weeks . The intentions are that we will be putting some sort of seating area (decking or paved) in this part of the garden so we don't need to keep the ground fertile for growing anything. I basically want them DEAD as DEAD can get. Any tips?

sassyblue

Hi mypie, not sure just how bad you mean but if you want to, you could hack down as much as possible and when the site is cleared spray it then. You'll save a bit of money l'm sure you'd only need to spray it once, twice at most.

(That's what we did anyway). HTH

EmptyPockets

Is it actually coming from your garden, or someone else's?

We had this problem down one side of our garden. The ivy was coming through from our neighbours back garden so we couldn't just drown it in weedkiller. It was coming over the top of the fence, through the fence panels, underneath the fence... everywhere! We ripped it all up from the ground. The stuff coming through the fence and over the top we just cut right back.

We just have to keep on top of it now by keeping it clipped back. but it looks tidy enough and doesn't cost anything for weedkiller.

hethmar

Oh, ivy is one of the best plants for wildlife. It gives shelter to birds in the winter and feeds them too with its berries and then you have nesting in the spring and all the insects hibernating in it, plus amphibians cuddling up under it.

I guess if you have only a small garden then you cant have it everywhere.

olly300

hethmar wrote: »

Oh, ivy is one of the best plants for wildlife. It gives shelter to birds in the winter and feeds them too with its berries and then you have nesting in the spring and all the insects hibernating in it, plus amphibians cuddling up under it.

It may be but it's a nuisance.

boufje

Cut off what you can and the
n spray the growing pale green leaves ( which haven't got waxy yet- might be too late for this year. Though)
search this site as it has been discussed many times but I only needed to sprAy once with resolva, I Also sprayed onto the sliced edge of trunks.

Good luck

giddyknits

are you sure its ivy and not Bindweed? as We have ALOT of bindweed in our garden which we have had to use glycosphate (sp? sorry) based weedkiller which if you look out for the special offer sachet boxes where you get 8 instead of 6 and we did around a 40ft x 5 ft space with 2 boxes (around £14) and then we've used resolva spray to catch the last few bits, as bindweed is indistructable as it just sends out new shoots underground.

if it is ivy then cutting back would be the best and it you may be able to train it around to give you a damn good hedge or bit of privacy

hth

mypie

Thanks for all your replys. I have looked in neighbours gardens and its doesn't even seem to be in there gardens. R back garden backs out onto a golf course where there is lots of trees but it doesn't even seem to be coming from there - its seems to begin at our back fence and continue from there. I went out tonight (other half watched footie) and have found even more of the stuff but I can see signs of wher the Glyphosate is working. We are thinking that this year we will just stick with it some way or another and cross our fingers. I am sure the neighbours are cursing us as its does seem to creep into their gardens but hopefully it gets sorted soon.