killing off IVY

 

Hi..
need to kill off IVY (the weedy thing, not a person).
Other established trees around it.
What is the best way .... don't want to really try digging it out...
Have on objection to chemicals :-)
Thanks
tony


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Tangy wrote:


repeated doses of boiling water doesn't do it much good
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faeychild

 

faeychild wrote:

A blowtorch then.  Wonder though if both these methods are not more
dangerous....than dabbing the vine with Zero?

 


Zero doesn't work, it's far too weak.  I've foudn it only knocks it back for
a while and it then starts off again.  I've been trying to eradicate a huge
wad of from a large bed for at least 10 years and the only thing that seems
to work is tree and blackberry poison which has 50g/L TRICLOPYR present as
Butoxyethanol Ester.

 


As kids we had a few pet sheep. They all loved ivy (and pumpkin vines,
potato plants, passion vine, honey suckle, orange trumpet flowers,
dandelions, etc., etc.)  In short, most flowers and anything with green
leaves!

Alas, if you read pastoral journals you will see that ivy is regarded as
carcinogenic, the likely cause of stomach cancer in stock that feed on it.

Speaking of sheep ... if you watch a sheep grazing you will see why the
wild sorrel in fields is known as sheep sorrel. Sheep can't walk past
a blade of it without snipping it off.
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John Savage                (my news address is not valid for email)