Anyone who has English ivy in their yard is a jerk

[Anonymous]

I have to fight the English Ivy from my neighbor's yard that tries to sneak in and choke my trees. It's definitely a battle. The part I dislike the most os the little stickers that have even made it through my gloves.

It's just the worst. My neighbors don't even like it themselves but the prior owners planted it and just getting it off their house was expensive.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Yet DCUM hates Roundup.

Round Up is not very effective with English Ivy. Most people who try to kill ivy with it do it all wrong and needlessly poison the yard while they ivy mocks them.

[Anonymous]

I agree.

Garden centers should not be able to sell it

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Yet DCUM hates Roundup.

Round Up is not very effective with English Ivy. Most people who try to kill ivy with it do it all wrong and needlessly poison the yard while they ivy mocks them.

Roundup is also really bad for people. I'll take my pulling and cutting over risking exposing my kid to that stuff any day.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I agree.

Garden centers should not be able to sell it

that is the really weird thing

it is so invasive and destructive

how/why do they still sell it?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:We have English ivy AND Bamboo. It's not crazy but we do have to watch the trees. One neighbor is irate about it, but it's odd because their yard it an absolute disaster.

I get finding it to be a nuisance, but your rage is a little outsized. Is a neighbor's ivy growing on your structure or something? Did it kill a tree that fell or something? You can't control everything, and if you want to, consider moving to a lot with acreage.

Nope.. Your ignorance is outsized..

https://mda.maryland.gov/plants-pests/Pages/avoid_asian_tiger_mosquitoes.aspx

Tiger mosquitoes tend to remain at ground level, especially under ground covers such as English Ivy.

Damn is that why we have those so bad?! There’s English ivy on the common ground right outside our patio. I wonder if anyone would care if I ripped it out. I’ve been pulling it regularly on my side of the fence.


Thanks to people like you, who grow non-native and invasive species of plants, we have problems with other pests like the Asian tiger mosquito that are absolutely horrific beasts that chew you up to death. Horrible.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I agree.

Garden centers should not be able to sell it

that is the really weird thing

it is so invasive and destructive

how/why do they still sell it?

Supply and demand. I chuckle every time I see liriope being sold as well. I've also come around to seeing how easily hellebores spread. There's no reason to buy any of these plants when you could probably ask your neighbors for extras (DON'T btw). I have seen a lot of centers starting to stock natives -- that wasn't the case several years ago.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I agree.

Garden centers should not be able to sell it

It makes a lovely houseplant (my mother still has the plant (or cuttings of, I forget) that my grandma was given by someone when she was treated for one of her cancers back in the 70s); if they tagged it appropriately - “this plant is invasive in our area and encourages tiger mosquitos and vermin” - and sold it in the indoors plant area it would be fine.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Does this go in the Lawn & Garden section? Yeah, I've removed all of the English ivy on our interwar colonial. Moving to an all native plants strategy if possible by getting rid of the hollies and non-native dogwoods. It seems to be the trend these days.

Did you pull all the ivy? How long did it take and how often do you have to do it again?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Does this go in the Lawn & Garden section? Yeah, I've removed all of the English ivy on our interwar colonial. Moving to an all native plants strategy if possible by getting rid of the hollies and non-native dogwoods. It seems to be the trend these days.

Did you pull all the ivy? How long did it take and how often do you have to do it again?

One problem with the invasive species, English Ivy, is that the roots go very deep and spread in a very wide web. Just pulling it is not likely to kill it, just set it back. We tried in our last house just pulling it. We spent a summer pulling and the next summer, it was coming back. So you need to pull as much as you can, but then look for one of the main/stronger vines and just cut it and leave one tendril with about 2 inches. Make sure to split the vine open. Then dip a paper towel in roundup so that it's saturated, and wrap that around the last tendril making sure to cover the as much of the exposed inner vine (inside the woody/bark-like exterior). Wrap it in plastic wrap. Then leave it. After killing most of the vine, the remaining vine will be very "thirsty" and will try to get sunlight and moisture to start regrowing and will drink heavily from that main vine that remains and it will soak up the roundup which should spread as far as possible. We did this over the next summer and for the next 3 years, it severely stunted the ivy's growth. I think we pulled and treated about 4 particularly large major vines.

If you have ivy that is throttling a tree, cut the ivy and pull it from a ring around the entire tree, make it about a 2 ft tall ring. You can leave any ivy that is above that ring. The ivy will die and once it is is dead, the tree will be able to grow again through the ivy. However, you need to have about a 2 ft ring. If you cut it off, ivy can thrive enough to grow roots back down about 1 ft and if it reaches the ground, it will recover and all of the vines that are on the tree will resume choking the tree. You need to make sure that the vine cannot reach the ground again.

[Anonymous]

I agree. My neighbor planted it and I'm very irritated. My son accidentally stepped on it and I secretly cheered inside.

Now the ivy is huge and everywhere. Awful.

[Anonymous]

I suspect a lot of homeowners inherited it when they bought the house, it was a very trendy thing to plant for a while. Our neighbors on all sides have it to some degree and they just don't care whereas I'm constantly pulling whatever creeps into our yard.

[Anonymous]

I don't really care if people inherited it or not. Take care of it and get rid of it. It came with your choice to buy the property. People who ignore it are just as bad. If I buy a home where I 'inhereted' dead or sick trees on the property, did nothing about it, and then ended up falling on someone's house or kling someone, am I blameless just because I inherited the problem when I bought the property? Heck no. Same with invasive species that kill our native trees, damage structures, and harbor pests. You knew before buying that you had ivy. Take care of it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I don't really care if people inherited it or not. Take care of it and get rid of it. It came with your choice to buy the property. People who ignore it are just as bad. If I buy a home where I 'inhereted' dead or sick trees on the property, did nothing about it, and then ended up falling on someone's house or kling someone, am I blameless just because I inherited the problem when I bought the property? Heck no. Same with invasive species that kill our native trees, damage structures, and harbor pests. You knew before buying that you had ivy. Take care of it.

We rent. I am not given supplies or paid for my time. I pull up any new growth each year but I am not spending 100 hours of my time fighting this beast. Hell no.

[Anonymous]

Our yard has lots of English ivy and it's impossible to eradicate. I despise it.