Re: Satisfaction
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  • Subject: Re: Satisfaction
  • From: &* <k*@comcast.net>
  • Date: Sat, 13 Feb 2010 11:41:52 -0500
When I first began to garden, I planted english ivy. I even propagated it and sold it. Planted it for a friend. I eventually realized the error of my ways and have gotten rid of most of it, but a little is ok in certain places. If I forget to pay attention and find it has climbed a tree.... NEVER just pull it off. You will take the tree bark with it. Just sever it at the base and let it wither, die, and fall off, just as you did. Some will hang on but when it is totally dead, it is possible to pull it down without taking all the tree bark with it. However, it's going to grow back from roots that go 3 feet deep unless you take further action. I have had some english ivy die during one very severe winter, but generally it always comes back. The main batch of it that I continually fight is what my northern neighbor has planted. Ivy travels south and it keeps coming under the fence. I let it go awhile but every once in awhile I have to go on the attack with it. 

Kitty
neIN, Zone 5
----- Original Message ----- From: "Pam Evans" <gardenqueen@gmail.com> 
To: <gardenchat@hort.net>
Sent: Saturday, February 13, 2010 10:19 AM
Subject: Re: [CHAT] Satisfaction



Yeah, that's bad stuff.  Right up there w/ kudzu I'm thinking.  It really
takes over. Virginia creeper tries to do that to my house but I yank it out 
as soon as I see it creeping up the siding...

On 2/13/10, andreah <andreah@hargray.com> wrote:


I don't know if I told you all that I have an English ivy problem at the
house. Apparently, someone thought it was a good idea to plant it as a
ground cover some 30 years ago or more. It has grown up into a couple of
oak
trees and is so long that it almost hangs to the ground. I don't know why I didn't think of it when I moved in (lost my mind for a few?) but I started 
researching how to get rid of it. It's right up there with Wisteria in my
book, Satan's vine. Anyway, I took a Sawzall (sp?) to it back in December. 
The trunks on this thing are bigger around than my arm and I don't have
small arms. Well, nothing happened. Again, I guess I lost what little
horticultural knowledge I had in the past 2 years. I talked to a tree guy
at
a home and garden show and he said give it 3-4 months to use up all its
reserves. Guess what, every time the wind blows massive amounts of ivy
leaves hit the ground and I get a glowing sense of satisfaction from seeing 
my yard covered with them. DIE!!!! MUUUHHAAAAAHAAAAAA!!!!!!!



The tree guy told me to call him once they were all dead and he'd come
clean
up the tree for me. If I had a cherry picker, I'd do it myself!
The point is, now my totally shaded garden will get some much needed bright light. I can hardly wait to see how much better the garden grows this year. 

A

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Pam Evans
Kemp TX
zone 8A

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