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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]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.[/quote]
Did you pull all the ivy? How long did it take and how often do you have to do it again? [/quote]

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.[/quote]

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