That isn't sold in France where Marlene and I live, so I looked it up. It's Glyphosate, which will soon be banned in France. But I tried it on Virginia Creeper, it died back then re-grew.
Dordogne and Norfolk. Clay in Dordogne, sandy in Norfolk.
Yes it’s similar I’ve used both to be honest and make sure it’s not over diluted, give it a good dose, it will do the job. A gentleman who owned a garden centre once told me that Boston Ivy and varginia creeper, the only way if the plant is fairly young to give tomato feed it actually kills it off but I used a weed killer. I believe you can buy weed killer plugs which you drill a hole in the main root and tap them in but think this would take longer to die off.
My father use to pour creosote into a root and that worked but doesn’t smell nice ? Good luck with it.?
The thing is we don't really want get rid of the creeper. As I think I said previously it does a very good job of covering a grey cement rendered two storey house. Our plant grows from a single, now rather thick root which if we sawed through would see the creeper die off as happened with the previous owner. The plant ,over the years since we've owned the house and it's regrown now has quite large leaves. What we wondered was should we have been doing something to keep it healthy. I don't think that pruning is an option because as I've said it covers the house and a single storey which on the roadside amounts to about 25 metres. It's taken years after it's last removal, (ie cutting off at the main root) to get to this point so cutting it off seems a bit of a drastic measure. I have just had a thought. Should we have restricted it's growth to the two storey dwelling as immobilier photos show the French owners did? Would this have kept it
Thank you for your time, thoughts and advice. concerning our problem.
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That isn't sold in France where Marlene and I live, so I looked it up. It's Glyphosate, which will soon be banned in France. But I tried it on Virginia Creeper, it died back then re-grew.
Yes it’s similar I’ve used both to be honest and make sure it’s not over diluted, give it a good dose, it will do the job. A gentleman who owned a garden centre once told me that Boston Ivy and varginia creeper, the only way if the plant is fairly young to give tomato feed it actually kills it off but I used a weed killer. I believe you can buy weed killer plugs which you drill a hole in the main root and tap them in but think this would take longer to die off.
My father use to pour creosote into a root and that worked but doesn’t smell nice ? Good luck with it.?
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The thing is we don't really want get rid of the creeper. As I think I said previously it does a very good job of covering a grey cement rendered two storey house. Our plant grows from a single, now rather thick root which if we sawed through would see the creeper die off as happened with the previous owner. The plant ,over the years since we've owned the house and it's regrown now has quite large leaves. What we wondered was should we have been doing something to keep it healthy. I don't think that pruning is an option because as I've said it covers the house and a single storey which on the roadside amounts to about 25 metres. It's taken years after it's last removal, (ie cutting off at the main root) to get to this point so cutting it off seems a bit of a drastic measure. I have just had a thought. Should we have restricted it's growth to the two storey dwelling as immobilier photos show the French owners did? Would this have kept it
Thank you for your time, thoughts and advice. concerning our problem.