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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Ripping out ivy is hard and thankless work. It will come back. I would hope the expensive bid comes with some assurance it won't come back right away ...

Just post on your listserv and see if anybody bites. If they don't, you aren't offering enough. For teens, you are competing with babysitting, lifeguarding, and similar jobs that aren't nearly so unpleasant so you will have to pay more than those rates. [/quote]

Luckily the soil in our yard isn’t clay the way it was in DC. We have sprayed with vinegar solution and let them bake, then pull out after a couple of days. The ivy comes up much more easily. My concern is if there is poison Ivy or something else there. I don’t think there is because it’s just ivy taking over the beds and climbing all the trees, but you never know. I don’t want a teen to get into that.

For rates, I don’t know how this compares but we are paying our babysitter who is a senior on he $15/hr to give you an idea of this area. [/quote]

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