Garden & Landscape. How Do I Kill Off Ivy Permanently?

Garden Landscape : How Do I Kill Off Ivy Permanently

Recently moved into a house with a beautiful ornamental rendered and tiled wall however the previous owners have allowed ivy to run rampant and it has grown up, in, over and through the wall. I want to find a way to kill it off permanently so that it doesnt ever grow back .. short of nuclear attack from space does anyone have an effective solution? ~~~ enzuigiriuk ~~~

Best Answer To Garden Landscape Question

What you need is a systemic weedkiller. A systemic weedkiller is absorbed by the plant through the leaves and poisons the entire system, including the roots. For that reason, the more weedkiller you can spray on the leaves, the better, because that means the plant absorbs more poison. In theory it wont poison the soil around the plant, but if you are spraying, some drops of spray could land on other plants that you want to keep, so if in doubt, paint it onto the leaves with a brush. The only systemic weedkilling chemical licensed for sale to the general public in the UK is glyphosate, which you can find in herbicides such as Roundup. One tip: the more glyphosate you can paint/spray on the leaves the better - so DONT chop back the ivy and then spray whats left. Its much more effective to spray the whole overgrown mass, so that more poison can be absorbed by the plant. One other tip: dont use the goat remedy someone suggested above. Although goats can and do strip ivy off walls and trees, in quantity regular ivy (as opposed to the American poison ivy) is poisonous to them. Plus they will eat everything in their reach, so bye-bye flowerbeds!

All Answer To Garden Landscape Questions

Answer 1

it has to be pulled up from the roots

Answer 2

Plant some Kudzu that stuff can kill anything. Or spend a weekend digging it up and burning it. Then spray a strong herbacide on the dirt.

Answer 3

Cut back the growth and treat the plant as close to the ground as possible with a systemic weed killer. keep children animals away and cover treated area for a month or so, remove as much root as possible then that should do it.

Answer 4

You need a good weed killer like Round-Up that will attack right down to the roots. It works - when we moved into our current house we had a hedge overrun with ivy - we pulled as much as we could out of the hedge and chopped it down to the ground - as new shoots appeared they got sprayed and it was clear within a year or two. Five years on and its still all clear.

Answer 5

Buy a goat

Answer 6

Bamp;Q sell spray cans of ivy killer.

Answer 7

the only way i foung to get rid of ivy is to pull all of it out. yes it takes time but it is worth it. i dont like ivy but my wife thinks it is pretty but i pull it out when she is not looking. there is a vegation killer out there but that kills everything.

Answer 8

Pull it out or spray it with a weed killer.

Answer 9

What you need is a systemic weedkiller. A systemic weedkiller is absorbed by the plant through the leaves and poisons the entire system, including the roots. For that reason, the more weedkiller you can spray on the leaves, the better, because that means the plant absorbs more poison. In theory it wont poison the soil around the plant, but if you are spraying, some drops of spray could land on other plants that you want to keep, so if in doubt, paint it onto the leaves with a brush. The only systemic weedkilling chemical licensed for sale to the general public in the UK is glyphosate, which you can find in herbicides such as Roundup. One tip: the more glyphosate you can paint/spray on the leaves the better - so DONT chop back the ivy and then spray whats left. Its much more effective to spray the whole overgrown mass, so that more poison can be absorbed by the plant. One other tip: dont use the goat remedy someone suggested above. Although goats can and do strip ivy off walls and trees, in quantity regular ivy (as opposed to the American poison ivy) is poisonous to them. Plus they will eat everything in their reach, so bye-bye flowerbeds!

Answer 10

I use a weedkiller called SBK which is available from DIY shops and garden centres. Just keep painting it on the leaves with an old brush. It will take some time but it WILL die. Alternatively if you cut a stem/trunk of it down and immediately paint SBK on the cut bit it will kill it.

Answer 11

cut it down to ground level remove it carefully from the wall then when it tries to grow spray with roundup every time you see a new leaf it wont appear to work at first but it will take time for it to kill the roots