interesting...did not know there was a varigated form.

RoseBlush1 said:Thank you.

My ivy is just a hedge hiding the propane tank. I live in a rural area, too, but I don't have a safe place for a burn pile on my property, but I do have a cliff across the street. I'll continue to toss the ivy debris over the cliff.

How are you eradicating the English Ivy ? I have to get rid of some vinca that the previous owner planted. So far, the vinca is still winning.

Smiles,
Lyn

English Ivy is almost impossible to get rid of. It's all over the yard at the house we're buying now, driving me insane.

Hi there Peggy, to ATP.

Sorry about your English Ivy problem. I wish you luck.

Thanks Lynn!

English Ivy is the bane of my existence. lol.

Believe me when I say that I 'Understand'.
I'm still finding new young seedlings out in my small woodland.

@gingin We had vinca in DeLand, and we have almost eradicated it. It grows well in FL, believe me! We had some of the variegated in AR and it tried to take over there, too!

Yes, that is the nature of the plant, and why it is so hard to get it out of the areas where it is getting plenty of water. I have deliberately stressed the vinca under the dogwood tree and now, before the winter rains hit, it has been easier to get it out. It make take a couple of years of real vigilance, but I am going to get it out of there. The wild violets are worse.

Smiles,
Lyn

Well then I guess I don't need to get any vinca. I have wild violets too, but they are most welcome to stay...at a swap I asked for some purple and everyone thought I was nuts. One girl's treasure is another's trash

Oh, I do like them when they are growing where I want them, but they invade the rose holes and their roots strangle the feeder roots of the roses. If I work to get them out of the rose holes, I am breaking those feeder roots as I remove the violets and that leaves me with a stressed rose.

I think as long as they are not growing near a plant really want in your garden, they are wonderful.

Smiles,
Lyn

Lin, I hesitate to throw either vinca or ivy into my mulch pile. Even after two summers of extreme drought in AR, I still have some vinca that survived outside of our watering zone.

Thank you.

For years, I have been throwing them over the cliff across the street because I didn't have a compost pile. This, year, I finally cleared a space for a compost pile and am still figuring out what I can throw in it that won't become a problem. We don't have garbage pick up, so there is no green waste cans to be picked up to be taken to the dump. Since they do decompose, I don't think of it as what is called "illegal dumping" up here.

I was hesitant about the ivy, too, but a speaker at my garden club said to put everything in the compost pile. That's where the question came from.

Smiles,
Lyn

In that case, I'd keep a close eye on that pile.

Porkpal.......

The compost pile is in the back of my home. I am more concerned about being sure to bury the kitchen waste so that the critters don't discover it ...

I am being very cautious about what I put in the compost pile. Anything I am not sure about goes across the street in front of the house and over the cliff ..

Smiles,
Lyn

We too have a handy cliff for questionable vegetation except it is an eroded gully in the riverbank. I recently tossed some ivy down; if it grows, okay if not, okay too.