This should answer your question, do not however use salt or other ground sterilizing chemicals unless you never intend to plant anything else where it is spread. Or you could borrow a goat, they love ivy and will eat every sprig that sticks it head above the ground until the roots have finally given up and died.
Glyphosate (N-(phosphonomethyl)glycine) is a broad-spectrum systemic herbicide used to kill weeds, especially annual broadleaf weeds and grasses known to compete with crops grown widely across the Midwest of the United States. Initially patented and sold by Monsanto Company in the 1970s under the tradename Roundup, its U.S. patent expired in 2000. Glyphosate is the most used herbicide in the USA.[3] Exact figures are hard to come by because the U.S. Department of Agriculture stopped updating its pesticide use database in 2008.[4] The EPA estimates that in the US during 2007, the agricultural market used 180 to 185 million pounds (82,000 to 84,000 tonnes) of glyphosate, the home and garden market used 5 to 8 million pounds (2,300 to 3,600 tonnes), and industry, commerce and government used 13 to 15 million pounds (5,900 to 6,800 tonnes), according to its Pesticide Industry Sales & Usage Report for 2006-2007 published in February, 2011.[5][6] While glyphosate has been associated with deformities in a host of laboratory animals, its impact on humans remains unclear.[6]
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snaffles@essex1.com wrote:
Is that the same as Round up?
Joyce
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>From : Doug Kalmer[mailto:dougkalmer@gmail.com]
Sent : 2/13/2012 1:51:28 PM
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Subject : RE: [DIY] Kill ivy
Go to a Farm supply and buy generic Glyphosate,
cut the stem down near
the ground, and paint straight Glyphosate on the cut,
if you later see
sprouting, repeat, but I doubt it will resprout . Doug
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