Anonymous wrote:Here's how you get rid of the stuff (especially if it's growing into your yard from someone else's)

1) Take a clean empty plastic container with a snap-on lid (like the kind of container you get margarine or hummus in).
2) Cut a hole in the top of the container.
3) Pour Roundup into the container
4) Put the tip of the Ivy vine into the container, then leave it.

Roundup is absorbed through leaves, but it kills plants by destroying their roots. Vines create complex, interconnected root systems. Just pulling it out of the ground in one spot rarely contains it because the places where it's still above ground will continue to keep pushing into other spaces. The Roundup container method causes the vine to drink up enough weedkiller to kill not just that one vine, but also a good chunk of the root system supporting its growth (not all of it though, so relax; you won't be killing all the ivy in your neighbor's yard). And because you used the container instead of trying to spray it you won't harm any other plants.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Here's how you get rid of the stuff (especially if it's growing into your yard from someone else's)

1) Take a clean empty plastic container with a snap-on lid (like the kind of container you get margarine or hummus in).
2) Cut a hole in the top of the container.
3) Pour Roundup into the container
4) Put the tip of the Ivy vine into the container, then leave it.

Roundup is absorbed through leaves, but it kills plants by destroying their roots. Vines create complex, interconnected root systems. Just pulling it out of the ground in one spot rarely contains it because the places where it's still above ground will continue to keep pushing into other spaces. The Roundup container method causes the vine to drink up enough weedkiller to kill not just that one vine, but also a good chunk of the root system supporting its growth (not all of it though, so relax; you won't be killing all the ivy in your neighbor's yard). And because you used the container instead of trying to spray it you won't harm any other plants.

Wow this is brilliant, thank you. And I also love it because it's not spraying RoundUp all over.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Here's how you get rid of the stuff (especially if it's growing into your yard from someone else's)

1) Take a clean empty plastic container with a snap-on lid (like the kind of container you get margarine or hummus in).
2) Cut a hole in the top of the container.
3) Pour Roundup into the container
4) Put the tip of the Ivy vine into the container, then leave it.

Roundup is absorbed through leaves, but it kills plants by destroying their roots. Vines create complex, interconnected root systems. Just pulling it out of the ground in one spot rarely contains it because the places where it's still above ground will continue to keep pushing into other spaces. The Roundup container method causes the vine to drink up enough weedkiller to kill not just that one vine, but also a good chunk of the root system supporting its growth (not all of it though, so relax; you won't be killing all the ivy in your neighbor's yard). And because you used the container instead of trying to spray it you won't harm any other plants.

Wow this is brilliant, thank you. And I also love it because it's not spraying RoundUp all over.

Anonymous wrote:Here's how you get rid of the stuff (especially if it's growing into your yard from someone else's)

1) Take a clean empty plastic container with a snap-on lid (like the kind of container you get margarine or hummus in).
2) Cut a hole in the top of the container.
3) Pour Roundup into the container
4) Put the tip of the Ivy vine into the container, then leave it.

Roundup is absorbed through leaves, but it kills plants by destroying their roots. Vines create complex, interconnected root systems. Just pulling it out of the ground in one spot rarely contains it because the places where it's still above ground will continue to keep pushing into other spaces. The Roundup container method causes the vine to drink up enough weedkiller to kill not just that one vine, but also a good chunk of the root system supporting its growth (not all of it though, so relax; you won't be killing all the ivy in your neighbor's yard). And because you used the container instead of trying to spray it you won't harm any other plants.

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.

Holly is native.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It was there when I bought the house. Trying to control it-- but not my fault.

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