Killing Ivy in Inaccessible Area
mike8578
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We've got Ivy running fairly rampant on a railway embankment at the bottom of our garden. Largely it seems to be confining itself to ground covering but there's a patch where it's coming up, through, and underneath our fencing.
Fence is over 6', and the ivy is between this fence and the mesh fence of the boundary of the rail line. It's less than 1' wide between fences and as good as impossible to get to.
I've sprayed with Bayer Glyphosate just over 1week ago, leaning over the fence whilst stood on ladder at the top of our side of the embankment (so fairly precariously!). Checked yesterday though and it doesn't even look slightly offended at its treatment.
Is it a matter of give it more time and/or treatment or is there a stronger treatment I can resort to?
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Why not just remove a fence panel instead of raining down toxic chemicals from the sky?
You'll soon see just how much stuff you've killed. You may not have made much impression on ivy, the poisons tend to run of the leaves, but I'm sure there'll be plenty of other dead stuff to make up for that.
In the sticks near Peterborough
The only product I've found that will kill ivy is Rosate36 - it's still glyphosphate so doesn't harm the soil.
It's too late in the season to use now, but when the ivy starts growing again next spring, 2-3 sprayings over 3-4 weeks should do for it
I had masses of ivy/brambles/nettles and docks to clear and Rosate36 was the only product that killed the ivy.
Billericay - Essex
Knowledge is knowing that a tomato is a fruit.
Wisdom is not putting it in a fruit salad.
There's not much else to kill in this particular patch - a fair amount of vegetation was removed by Network Rail in the last couple of years and there was little of any value in the patch behind us anyway. There's nothing on our side of the fence either as it was previously home to 8 large conifers which put paid to anything growing other than a self seeded cherry, which we moved couple of years ago. The ground on our side is bare and prepped for planting up through winter.
And besides, my spraying was fairly well targetted I like to think
Removing the fence panel is an option but they aren't drop-in panels, so not the easiest to remove.
I found that Rosate 39 which is glyphosphate worked a treat on the mass of ivy 30ft wide and 6-8ft high on my back fence. In some places it was 2ft thick having been untouched for some 15yrs.
All I had to do was saw off the ivy 'trunks' as close to the ground as I could and pull the dead stuff off the fence. I only done that bit last week, but there's no sign of any re growth
In April this yr-
I sprayed the lot 3 times over 2 months with Rosate36 and it killed all of it.
Today-
There was some extra work done in between
Billericay - Essex
Knowledge is knowing that a tomato is a fruit.
Wisdom is not putting it in a fruit salad.
Cheers Verd! I'll be hoping for some guidance from you and the team here when it comes to working out quite what should go where..
The g/house was installed today
Billericay - Essex
Knowledge is knowing that a tomato is a fruit.
Wisdom is not putting it in a fruit salad.
With a little help from the friendly and knowledgeable folk here I hope to get it all sorted over the next couple of years.
At the moment all I seem to be doing is wheelbarrowing gravel/soil or manure around, so I'm looking forward to getting it all ready for planting in the spring and hopefully have some time to relax and enjoy it too
Billericay - Essex
Knowledge is knowing that a tomato is a fruit.
Wisdom is not putting it in a fruit salad.