Victory over ivy

[hrj]

Performed the first part of a barter today: I put in an afternoon of yard-tool-wielding for kahnegabs in exchange for borrowing her long-handled electric chainsaw for the week. (The side benefits of the barter are that I have a clear deadline for getting the serious pruning done in my yard, and I avoid having to purchase yet one more power tool that I would only use for one week every year.) So we put in around 3-4 hours of ivy-removal from a trellis and got the job very close to completely finished. Now why would ivy-removal require power tools and long-handled loppers? We're talking about elderly ivy with main trunks in the 3" diameter range. Ivy that has been entwining so long on the trellis that it has created its own pockets of well-rotted topsoil. Truly this was the Yggdrasil of ivy. It was the sort of job that makes all that time with the weight machines in the gym pay off. Tired now.

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Kill the Ivy, kill it!

[lapioggia.livejournal.com]

Brava. I wish I could get my neighbors to do the same. They let it run wild in their back yard & it constantly tries to come over the fence & fraternize with my honeysuckle & grape vines.