Look up 'soil solarization'.
You cover the ground with plastic after cutting everything down as close as you can get it.
http://www.ipm.ucdavis.edu/PMG/PESTNOTES/pn74145.htm
It cooks the ground, killing most everything. It effectively composts the soil. I looked to see if it was effective for English ivy, didn't find if it was or not.
Steve
On 2/12/2012 2:25 PM, Shelby Kail wrote:
I hired some guys to come here last fall to kill Ivy ....it's was like Ivy from hell. They ripped it off of my house ( a log house) ...which was good..and cut it back a lot. But when it came to digging up the roots of it.......well they failed...didn't want to do it. ........After they cut it down I begged them to go further and dig out the roots. Well that was too much work for them I quess, no matter that I was paying them $25 an hr. I had also bought about 3-4 gallons of scrub and tree killer...they sparyed it one time and I sprayed it 2 more times late last summer going into fall. But I see the Ivy is wanting to take over again...still alive and well.Any ideas out there to kill this monster Ivy?It has caused some damage to my log home already..which I will have to repair..but how do I stop it's invasion?sj
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