Comment on English Ivy

boogetyboo@aussie.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

• MelodiousFunk@slrpnk.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  I’m playing whack a mole with my own ivy. Fuck the prior house owners for letting it get out of hand. I got all of it from the trees and the side of the house but it always grows back. I’m still finding sprouts from thick woody vines that have been there forever apparently. I tried removing it from the fence but realized very quickly that it’s the only thing holding it together. 😒

  And fuck the English for bringing it over (we both know it was them, even their plants are colonizers).

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  • sevan@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Same. I have a fence that’s barely still standing now that I removed the ivy. I’ve been pulling it and spraying it for several years now. I know I’ll never win, but I’m doing my best to keep it in check. The most painful part is when I go to garden centers and see it for sale. It makes me want to cry.

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    • MelodiousFunk@slrpnk.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      The most painful part is when I go to garden centers and see it for sale.

      “Buy it for life!”

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  • ShellMonkey@lemmy.socdojo.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Some of those are absurdly strong. I have wild grapes in my yard that go ahold of an old clothesline with 6 lines across it. Now I didn’t use said line so figured just let it be to feed the birds and such. Turns out it got thick enough that one winter when a particularly heavy snow came through the weight of the snow on the vine mat was enough to bend in the poles that are a good 3 inches thick.

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