Help! My ivy is out of control. How do I cut this?
What tool should I buy or borrow to cut or trim back excessive ivy growth on the front of my garage?

Here's a picture of the front of the garage:
http://s790.photobucket.com/user/pho...a/Ivy.jpg.html


Thanks for any help you can give,
Bill

On 10/22/2013 1:36 AM, wrote:
Help! My ivy is out of control. How do I cut this?
What tool should I buy or borrow to cut or trim back excessive ivy growth on the front of my garage?

Here's a picture of the front of the garage:
http://s790.photobucket.com/user/pho...a/Ivy.jpg.html


Thanks for any help you can give,
Bill


Nasty, invasive plant outdoors, especially in warm climate. It can grow
into structures and strangle mature trees. I would cut it off at the
ground....killing foliage on garage will help to see where it has
attached or grown into the building. The little sticky things it holds
on with are hard to remove...torch? if masonry? Then: after cutting off
at ground, wait until about three new leaves form on the plants and
start using Roundup. I think the label says you can add detergent for
waxy leaves like ivy. Using consistently on new growth, with more
tender leaves, is easier than using on more mature growth. Protect the
stuff you want to keep, as overspray can kill other plants. You will
undoubtedly need to repeat applications of Roundup, but it will
eventually do the job. Just wait for the new growth for additional
applications.

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Help! My ivy is out of control. How do I cut this?
What tool should I buy or borrow to cut or trim back
excessive ivy growth on the front of my garage?

Here are some of the things that could be used...

1. pruning shears

2. pruning saw

3. kitchen knife

4. scissors

5. chain saw

6. sawzall

7. saber saw

8. straight razor

IOW, something sharp that cuts.


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On 10/22/2013 1:36 AM, wrote:
Help! My ivy is out of control. How do I cut this?
What tool should I buy or borrow to cut or trim back excessive ivy growth on the front of my garage?

Here's a picture of the front of the garage:
http://s790.photobucket.com/user/pho...a/Ivy.jpg.html


Thanks for any help you can give,
Bill


You should never have allowed it to get so far.
Any tool can cut it down but as others suggest, I'd hit it with Round-up.

Everyone talks about how invasive it is but I have it all around the
house but I never let it climb anything and nip in the bud. I can't
grow it as ground cover on banks away from the house as deer eat it.

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Help! My ivy is out of control. How do I cut this?
What tool should I buy or borrow to cut or trim back excessive ivy growth on the front of my garage?

Here's a picture of the front of the garage:
http://s790.photobucket.com/user/pho...a/Ivy.jpg.html

Thanks for any help you can give,

I had some ivy spring up near my foundation.
At first I thought, pretty plant, maybe I should leave it.
Then I found the plant had grown right between the sill plate and
the foundation into the garage. This is on a well built house with
no gaps anywhere.

Now I kill the stuff on sight.

Don't cut it, trim it, or anything like that.
Pull it and/or give it the Roundup treatment.
It will tear your house apart.

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Dan Espen

On 10/22/2013 9:17 AM, Dan Espen wrote:
writes:

Help! My ivy is out of control. How do I cut this?
What tool should I buy or borrow to cut or trim back excessive ivy growth on the front of my garage?

Here's a picture of the front of the garage:
http://s790.photobucket.com/user/pho...a/Ivy.jpg.html

Thanks for any help you can give,

I had some ivy spring up near my foundation.
At first I thought, pretty plant, maybe I should leave it.
Then I found the plant had grown right between the sill plate and
the foundation into the garage. This is on a well built house with
no gaps anywhere.

Now I kill the stuff on sight.

Don't cut it, trim it, or anything like that.
Pull it and/or give it the Roundup treatment.
It will tear your house apart.


It would be next to impossible to pull it and be sure it is dead, esp.
with a growth like the OP has. There are loads of "nice" houseplants
that get planted outdoors and become very invasive...purple loosestrife,
asparagus fern, etc. Not to mention kudzu ) I just bought a plant
this summer....Mexican primrose....for new beds in my yard. I wasn't
familiar with it, so looked it up on the 'net after I got it home. One
blogger said that it was invasive in good soil, but not so bad in poor
dry soil. I had just the place for it, until about a week ago when I
saw the stuff spreading all over my hard, rocky plant beds. I started
digging it up and discovered very strong, thick roots with new plants
sprouting from every root branch. Now I'm digging it up and going to
burn it. I take pains to keep flowers and veggie garden healthy without
poison other harmful stuff, and I don't want to be responsible for
another crap plant that becomes a weed.

On the brighter side, I made concrete planters for the water lilies in
my pond; monster bullfrog moved in in the spring and looks like he is
staying. I think he dug up the planter night after I put peat in the
new planter....turned my pond into a mudpit ) Got it all cleaned up
and thought he had gone missing, but he is still here. Good hiding
places in the pond for critters, and fun to watch.

The first bullfrog to take up residence didn't last long; found him dead
one morning, with guts hanging out of his mouth. Thought it must have
been something foul that he ate, but that was before I knew that
bullfrogs can catch and eat birds. The next bullfrog is a monster, and
since he moved in I have found two dead birds in the pond....odd that
they would fall from the sky into my dinky little pond ) They looked
strange, with their necks stretched, but I think the bullfrog caught
them and then couldn't ingest them. He did a good job on another frog,
only about 3" body length.

On Tuesday, October 22, 2013 1:36:51 AM UTC-4, wrote:
Help! My ivy is out of control. How do I cut this?

What tool should I buy or borrow to cut or trim back excessive ivy growth on the front of my garage?



Here's a picture of the front of the garage:

http://s790.photobucket.com/user/pho...a/Ivy.jpg.html





Thanks for any help you can give,

Bill

Cut it all off between the ground and where it firs starts up the building. The vines should be pretty thick there are you can pull a lot of it down by starting at the bottom. Don't worry about getting it all as what you can't get will die and fall off in a few months. You may need to scrape a bit before painting the next time you paint. Once you get it off this time then just hit it with the weed wacker every month or so where it's trying to go up the house.

Norminn writes:

On 10/22/2013 9:17 AM, Dan Espen wrote:
writes:

Help! My ivy is out of control. How do I cut this?
What tool should I buy or borrow to cut or trim back excessive ivy growth on the front of my garage?

Here's a picture of the front of the garage:
http://s790.photobucket.com/user/pho...a/Ivy.jpg.html

Thanks for any help you can give,

I had some ivy spring up near my foundation.
At first I thought, pretty plant, maybe I should leave it.
Then I found the plant had grown right between the sill plate and
the foundation into the garage. This is on a well built house with
no gaps anywhere.

Now I kill the stuff on sight.

Don't cut it, trim it, or anything like that.
Pull it and/or give it the Roundup treatment.
It will tear your house apart.


It would be next to impossible to pull it and be sure it is dead,
esp. with a growth like the OP has.

Agreed.

I was thinking kill the thing with Roundup now, and any time you see
new shoots, just pull them. Works pretty well here.

I was told with vines, you should assume that the root is about the
same size as the vine. A six inch vine can be pulled. Much longer
and you may have to pull it more than once.

It's a shame, it is pretty attractive. Maybe okay on old garden walls
away from the house.

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Dan Espen

On Mon, 21 Oct 2013 22:36:51 -0700 (PDT),
wrote:

Help! My ivy is out of control. How do I cut this?
What tool should I buy or borrow to cut or trim back excessive ivy growth on the front of my garage?

Here's a picture of the front of the garage:
http://s790.photobucket.com/user/pho...a/Ivy.jpg.html


Thanks for any help you can give,
Bill

Loop a nylon strap around what is on the wall, load the dog in the bed
of the ole truck, use the truck to pull the ivy off the wall.

Cut it up and burn it.

YMMV

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Help! My ivy is out of control. How do I cut this?
What tool should I buy or borrow to cut or trim back excessive ivy growth
on the front of my garage?

Here's a picture of the front of the garage:
http://s790.photobucket.com/user/pho...a/Ivy.jpg.html


Thanks for any help you can give,
Bill

Loppers like these:
https://www.google.com/search?q=lopp...1280&bi h=610
plus a saw (circular saw, sawzall, or whatever) to cut the vines that are to
thick for the loppers, and some kind of forked hoe like this:
https://www.google.com/search?q=lopp...d+hoe&tbm=isch
and/or a rake to pull the vines away from and off the building.

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wrote in message
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Help! My ivy is out of control. How do I cut this?
What tool should I buy or borrow to cut or trim back excessive ivy growth
on the front of my garage?

Here's a picture of the front of the garage:
http://s790.photobucket.com/user/pho...a/Ivy.jpg.html


Thanks for any help you can give,
Bill

Loppers like these:
https://www.google.com/search?q=lopp...1280&bi h=610
plus a saw (circular saw, sawzall, or whatever) to cut the vines that are
to thick for the loppers, and some kind of forked hoe like this:
https://www.google.com/search?q=lopp...d+hoe&tbm=isch
and/or a rake to pull the vines away from and off the building.

Oops, that second link should have been:
https://www.google.com/search?hl=en&...49.AfBfxvMDuhw