What's good for killing ivy without harming nearby fruit trees? The neighbouring land (not someone's garden) has a couple of seriously overgrown ivy plants and they're growing onto my property and also growing all over the fruit trees next to them. I'd like some sort off weedkiller to kill them that won't harm the trees.
You could just locate the places where they connect to the earth and cut them there. They need roots.
There might be a teansy weansy legal point about killing something not on your land?
Can't you just cut the plants off a few inches below the soil level, the tops will then die and they don't come back from the roots.
You can cut whatever parts of the ivy are growing on your side of the property line but the application of defolient or digging/pulling up the ivy is something best discussed with your neighbor prior to proceeding with any erradication method and first obtaining their written permission. In some jurisdictions one may apply for monetary compensation for periodically cutting the parts of a neighbor's vegetation growing on your side when they refuse to cut back or otherwise contain their vegetation. There have been many law suits won by people against neighbors whose invasive vegetation have crossed the line... in some instances blocking the view with vegetation is against the law. Of course if you have any reason to believe your neighbor will be uncooperative then it is best to say nothing, creep out in the middle of a moonless night with your sprayer filled with defolient and have at it.
Have you talked to the owner?
I would.
They may not be aware the problem they are causing and actually welcome you comments and invite you to 'sort em out'
It costs nothing to ask.
Bloody silly advice, but then I have always got on very well with all of my neighbours. I suppose it is your experience and attitude which has caused a different opinion :-((
DUH!
You'd be one of those rare but pitiful neighbors where it would be best to proceed with eraticating their invasive growth without giving a heads up.
You folks haven't dealt with ivy before, have you? Nothing short of pulling it out by the roots will slow it down.
Thank you for your wonderful kind words. I trust you live in the middle of a field? If not, with an attitude like that, you should
Yes I have. If pulling it out by the roots is the remedy, pull it out by the roots .......... once it has rooted on your land.
Where is the problem? Too much like hard work? Concrete everything over then and paint it green
I suggest waiting for a good day or two of rain to soften the soil. Then wearing gloves long sleeves etc and having a large trash bag about gently pull up the vine trying to get all the roots. May be easier here as sandy loan with high mulch content enables the surface roots to pull well. Think of these roots as underground vine. Try to get it all. Go slow. Hot shower afterwards. Ivy is a good thing to watch for and remove early. Still a bird dropping in and obscure location and nature works. I've neighbors that don't have a clue about poison ivy and don't care.
Bill
And then pull them out again, and then once again. Then you may be able to catch your breath as they regroup.
He does sexual innuendoes too.
Welcome aboard ;O)
I know he read my reply to the OP and than has the unmitigated chutzpah to regurgitate eggszactly what I suggested.
And I do live in the middle of a field, a rather large field, as do most of my neighbors... we like it that way.
I've been attempting to obliterate the field by planting trees but with such a large field its a losing battle...last week I planted two chubby little Colorado blue spruce... what kind of dent will these make:
snippy
there. Wanna let on where it is? Regards,
Nice garden shed!
Mike
I have dealt with ivy, lots of ivy. Its no big deal. Chop it off, pull up what you can, then strim, pluck, whatever what re grows. It soon gives up.
Mike
Wait until a soaking rain and pull out the ivy by hand. I have a pair of leather garden gloves for such occasions. You can also cut the ivy vines near the ground. A different method for poison ivy, though.
It's in NY's Catskills. I do have a good sized veggie garden but with all the rain and chilly weather this year it has been a very bad year, most everything has drowned.
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