Ivy

[ELBBUBKUNPS]

I got loads of it in my garden been clearing it for weeks.

I spotted before what I thought was a tree / shrub as the trunk was approx. 9-10inch in diameter so ignored it turns out its a ivy stem, to get that large it must of been there for years........ I'm ringing record breakers ......

[AtW]

Be thankful it's not Fallopia japonica...

[ELBBUBKUNPS]

Be thankful it's not Fallopia japonica...

Yeah tbh now I'm in the house and seen what the garden is like in spring / summer I am truly surprised I don't have knot weed. After 8 weekend of constantly being in the garden I relented today and booked myself a gardener.

[eek]

Yeah tbh now I'm in the house and seen what the garden is like in spring / summer I am truly surprised I don't have knot weed. After 8 weekend of constantly being in the garden I relented today and booked myself a gardener.

I am a contractor. Anything I don't want to do gets subcontracted to someone who is better at it than me. Gardening, ironing and cleaning are all items to be outsourced...

[FatLazyContractor]

I am a contractor. Anything I don't want to do gets subcontracted to someone who is better at it than me. Gardening, ironing and cleaning are all items to be outsourced...

They are what a wife is meant for. Why outsource and waste dosh?

[xoggoth]

Quite like Ivy me. looks much nicer than bare fence.

Not that I would ever seriously disagree with someone with your signature. Good eman, I mean name, too.

[eek]

They are what a wife is meant for. Why outsource and waste dosh?

Because I'm not divorced nor plan to be

[woohoo]

Glad to know its not just me that is dealing with a problem garden!

I'm trying to remove everything that is not lawn, small trees, bushes all gone. I'm scratched to hell! I even bought a new mower from Bosh, powered by batteries. Saves on time messing about getting petrol and oil.

I did try to get someone in to do the gardening but they are expensive and said they would only do the lawn, not the hedges, bushes, plants. I also feel a bit guilty but being in the garden its one of the few times I get some sun.

[minestrone]

Some ivy has completely worked its way into a 100 year old wall in the back garden . I don't want kill it as the branches that are all through the mortar would degrade over time and weaken the wall.

I just have to attack it once a year. If it gets left for a few years it will become about a foot deep on the wall and you end up cutting it off with a hedge trimmer like cutting slices of birthday cake.