I buy the concentrated glyphosphate that makes say 15 litres. I think it's resolvor or something. Instead of mixing 10ml in a litre and using a spray, I mix 10 ml with 100ml of water in an old marg pot. I then use a small artist brush to apply to the weed leaves. The trick is to be vigilant, granted, against bigger docks and dandy's and bindweed bramble, it doesn't kill it immediately. BUT, it puts them on the back foot. With things like bindweed and bramble, very very tough to dig out. If you get it when it starts to sprout, then I apply every month or so, make sure it's dry for 12 hrs after application, you will control it. I'm finding in my third year here, there's very few bit's coming up now, so I think I'm winning! (BTW it's coming from next door too!)
Only way you can get rid of that is to keep cutting it at the base. dreadful stuff, ivy. but we are now winning our battle ater 3 years of cutting down and pulling up.
Weed killer doesn't really have much effect on ivy.
Easy one for you tbh, buy some good quality anti weed ground covering. Prob best to buy online, get a 50 metre roll for around 60 quid with a good thickness. Go next door and tramp the whole area jump up and down as much as possible break as much as you can. Next spray with bush killer, leave dry a few days, obviously do this when no rain for a couple of days. Then whack the anti-weed membrane down and hold it down with bricks etc anything in the garden, particular attention to the edges. If you can talk to the landlord, he may well pay for all this then a nice gravel to go on top. Get the tennants to help spread it, maybe landlord can knock a few quid of that months rent. He'll be happy that back garden is sorted so can charge more and little to no maintenance, and you'll be happy because you aren't fighting a losing battle. It's a hard course to take, but if you own your property, the only one that will give you peace of mind.
I think a root barrier maybe the only answer. Not all neighbours can be bothered to resolve problems they are causing, if it costs them time or money!
We get bindweed under the fence from one neighbour & ground elder & bamboo from the other!
We have twice tried emptying the borders, digging every trace of root (or so we thought) out before replanting. Pointless, as others have said. Loads of the weeds still pop up & more grows under.
The funny thing is both sides have well manicured looking gardens with paid gardeners, who obvioulsy only tend the front of the border & what goes on at the back or behind the shrubs gets ignored!
I get so fed up with glyphosate looking like it hasn't worked, or it raining, or being too windy to apply, it needing to dry before the dog can go out... I now just tend to pull them out when I see them.
It seems so unjust that we will probably end up putting root barriers along all the fences both sides at our expense when they should be our neighbours problems, but that's life.
Or back to the glyphosate. Beware of strengthening the concentrate, that can apparently just kill the plant before it has time to take it all the way down to the roots, so is counterproductive.
I think a root barrier maybe the only answer. Not all neighbours can be bothered to resolve problems they are causing, if it costs them time or money!
We get bindweed under the fence from one neighbour & ground elder & bamboo from the other!
We have twice tried emptying the borders, digging every trace of root (or so we thought) out before replanting. Pointless, as others have said. Loads of the weeds still pop up & more grows under.
The funny thing is both sides have well manicured looking gardens with paid gardeners, who obvioulsy only tend the front of the border & what goes on at the back or behind the shrubs gets ignored!
I get so fed up with glyphosate looking like it hasn't worked, or it raining, or being too windy to apply, it needing to dry before the dog can go out... I now just tend to pull them out when I see them.
It seems so unjust that we will probably end up putting root barriers along all the fences both sides at our expense when they should be our neighbours problems, but that's life.
Or back to the glyphosate. Beware of strengthening the concentrate, that can apparently just kill the plant before it has time to take it all the way down to the roots, so is counterproductive.
hmm thanks for the tip on the glyphosphate, I didn't know that, mind, I've not really had any docks or dandys back in the same place. Brambles and bindweed always regrow, but I'm thinking due to extensive root systems rather than overpowering the concentrate.
All I can say is mix up a solution of glysophate in a jar & paint it on the leaves you will have to persist with this & I can understand how frustrating this is for you, it will eventaly work but it takes time, one of the garden's I do has 2 achers of bind weed & I'm slowly winning!! what ever you do don't dig it it all just regrows!
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I buy the concentrated glyphosphate that makes say 15 litres. I think it's resolvor or something. Instead of mixing 10ml in a litre and using a spray, I mix 10 ml with 100ml of water in an old marg pot. I then use a small artist brush to apply to the weed leaves. The trick is to be vigilant, granted, against bigger docks and dandy's and bindweed bramble, it doesn't kill it immediately. BUT, it puts them on the back foot. With things like bindweed and bramble, very very tough to dig out. If you get it when it starts to sprout, then I apply every month or so, make sure it's dry for 12 hrs after application, you will control it. I'm finding in my third year here, there's very few bit's coming up now, so I think I'm winning! (BTW it's coming from next door too!)
here are the pictures:
behind our fence
our fence, trellis broken already
area where I am unable to plant anything
Kleeblatt, that`s not Bindweed (Convolvulous) It`s IVY!
Only way you can get rid of that is to keep cutting it at the base. dreadful stuff, ivy. but we are now winning our battle ater 3 years of cutting down and pulling up.
Weed killer doesn't really have much effect on ivy.
Click on the actual picture, you can see close up it is actually bindweed Kleeblatt is talking about, on the trellis, it's poking through!
Personally I think ivy is a great asset. Bees love it, birds nest in it, however you can keep the bindweed!
Easy one for you tbh, buy some good quality anti weed ground covering. Prob best to buy online, get a 50 metre roll for around 60 quid with a good thickness. Go next door and tramp the whole area jump up and down as much as possible break as much as you can. Next spray with bush killer, leave dry a few days, obviously do this when no rain for a couple of days. Then whack the anti-weed membrane down and hold it down with bricks etc anything in the garden, particular attention to the edges. If you can talk to the landlord, he may well pay for all this then a nice gravel to go on top. Get the tennants to help spread it, maybe landlord can knock a few quid of that months rent. He'll be happy that back garden is sorted so can charge more and little to no maintenance, and you'll be happy because you aren't fighting a losing battle. It's a hard course to take, but if you own your property, the only one that will give you peace of mind.
I think a root barrier maybe the only answer. Not all neighbours can be bothered to resolve problems they are causing, if it costs them time or money!
We get bindweed under the fence from one neighbour & ground elder & bamboo from the other!
We have twice tried emptying the borders, digging every trace of root (or so we thought) out before replanting. Pointless, as others have said. Loads of the weeds still pop up & more grows under.
The funny thing is both sides have well manicured looking gardens with paid gardeners, who obvioulsy only tend the front of the border & what goes on at the back or behind the shrubs gets ignored!
I get so fed up with glyphosate looking like it hasn't worked, or it raining, or being too windy to apply, it needing to dry before the dog can go out... I now just tend to pull them out when I see them.
It seems so unjust that we will probably end up putting root barriers along all the fences both sides at our expense when they should be our neighbours problems, but that's life.
Or back to the glyphosate. Beware of strengthening the concentrate, that can apparently just kill the plant before it has time to take it all the way down to the roots, so is counterproductive.
hmm thanks for the tip on the glyphosphate, I didn't know that, mind, I've not really had any docks or dandys back in the same place. Brambles and bindweed always regrow, but I'm thinking due to extensive root systems rather than overpowering the concentrate.
Hiya,
All I can say is mix up a solution of glysophate in a jar & paint it on the leaves you will have to persist with this & I can understand how frustrating this is for you, it will eventaly work but it takes time, one of the garden's I do has 2 achers of bind weed
& I'm slowly winning!! what ever you do don't dig it it all just regrows!
good luck