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Ivy
Jana Herynkova
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How to get the ivy from the garden without chemicals? Vegetation Ivy 30cm layer around the garden. Thank you for the ideas and information.
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When we moved to this garden it was full of ivy
We cut it all back and then dug the roots out - they don't really go very deep - it took most of the summer and filled three skips - but we have got rid of it and put up new fences - we just get the occasional bit creeping through from next door.
Good luck
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Thank you. I am also of the opinion that the ivy can be reduced in this way. He came to us because one man that will help us with this and wanted to use chemistry. I truly dislike. Thanks for the advice.
A ground covering layer can be mown for a start, It makes it easier to find the separate stems to pull. It's one of the easier plants to remove (compared to bindweed, ground elder and worse)
In the sticks near Peterborough
Thank you very much!
I've found that weed killers don't work very well on ivy, it's too waxy. But the ivy here is not very easy to pull up or dig up! I hate it.
I didn't say it was easy
Some of the ivy around our garden had been there for nearly half a century - my OH used an axe and a saw as well as forks and spades - but the roots don't go deep and it's still a more reliable way than using a herbicide. 
It's not the first time I've taken on established ivy and won, but it's the first time I had the help of my OH
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Mine has been here for years too and the forest all around me is full of it. I dug one root with several branches about 2 metres long and nearly as thick as my wrist, from the long herbaceous border last year, meant I had to dig up and replant several perennials. Yet the whole bed had been dug up and replanted 10 years before.
I have a lot of ivy, it covers the fences and I find it fairly easy to control with shears a couple of times a year. I just pull up the bits that stray into the garden before they get a good hold. It's been here a long time and the stems in some parts of the garden are really thick.