Flowerbed INFESTED with ENGLISH IVY!! HUGE TRANSFORMATION!!
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- čas přidán 2. 08. 2024
- Today we had a somewhat of a unique job removing lots of English ivy that was overgrowing in this huge flower bed. The ivy slowly made its way from other parts of the property and ended up growing under all of these cedar trees and the result is a huge headache.
When the ivy is given freedom, like any other invasive species, it will take advantage and will slowly creep under and over everything it can, creating a thick green carpet that chokes away at all other organic material. We were able to take this huge flowerbed and get it all cleaned up and removed of ivy to the best of our ability.
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Timestamps:
00:00 Introduction
00:37 Pulling Ivy
01:40 Some Nice Progress
02:30 Removing Ivy
02:45 A Nice Surprise...
03:03 Bumblebees :)
03:09 Cutting Ivy
03:55 Bumblee Bee Hive
04:13 Clearing Ivy
04:17 Finished 1/3 Of Way
04:43 Removing Ivy
07:08 End of Day 1
07:15 Start of Day 2
07:38 Removing Ivy
08:42 Blanketed Wood
08:57 Almost Done!
09:12 Another Bumblebee Surprise :)
09:42 Last Section!
10:00 Ivy Removal Complete!
10:40 Hauling Away Debris
10:54 Before & After Pictures
11:00 Area Walkthrough
11:38 Conclusion - Zábava
OMG! I never realised how hard it was to remove Ivy. What a massive job you have done, and done it well. 💖
Thank you Kiri!
having cleared a much smaller area of ivy at my parents I ca appreciate how tough that must have been. I thought I had missed a trick when you started with the brush cutter but you ended up like us pulling it all out by hand. Tough work. 👍
If I could just cut it that would have been great! But it seems that english ivy is one of those plants that will always require manual extraction.
I am working on my mom's yard. My dad passed and he kept it looking so pretty. The vines have taken over and I need to restore it as best I can. To look at it overwhelms me but with your video I see that I need to take it one section at a time. Thank you!
I am about 80% done my ivy removal on my property. I have spent about 1.5 weeks! When you said 2 days, I had to watch. While you sure have a great back and work hard, that ivy will be back in no time - you did not dig up the roots. And man, that is a job!! Thank you for the video and making many aware that if they see ivy.., kill it on the spot before it takes over the world😃😃
I’m glad to hear you’re making progress on your ivy project!
I’ve used the same technique here in other areas and it seemed to work. I don’t just try to pull-up the stuff that’s on top, but the vines/roots that are in the ground were uprooted as well. 😁👍
Was that music " What a Friend We Have in Jesus"? My grandmother used to sing it. Great cleanup!
It sure was! Thanks Cath! :)
@@golovinpropertyservices Great choice in music to go with the work.
@@chuckwalker2263 I agree, I’m usually listening to psalms and hymns while
I work so might as well give others the experience as well.
A gorgeous completed trimming and shaping. Thanks for the video and chat. Your the best Dave. Cheers Dave!
Thank you for watching Martin! Have a great day!
You pulled everything up instead of just weed eating , LOVE IT. Great job.
Weed eating would have been a temporary solution but not permanent. Thanks Joanne!
Ivy is the worst to remove. You did a great job. Also, I love the music. Good choice.
Thank you Connie!
That was a great job. You're such a good worker.
Thank you Piri!
Amazing job!!
Thank you Irma!
Wow. Great job. That ivy is backbreaking work. We have been fighting it from neighbors yard for years.
I agree! It's not fun, but it is satisfying :)
really enjoyed the sound track. perfect working music. good job.
That was one heck of a job!! You made it half way and WELL DONE!! 👍👍😎
Thank you Irene!
Hard work beautiful result👏🌹
It was a hard one, but I’m definitely satisfied with the result! 😁👍
Loved your music praise the lord
Glory to God!
The music is lovely and relaxing ❤ great job your doing
Thanks Hazel!
Looks awesome.
Thank you Dassa!
Bee careful! Amazed that you got that done in two days.
I sure will bee-careful😅👍👍
Beast bro!🔥🔥
Wow huge job! Well done 👍
Thank you Mary!
Good work n its not an easy job. Thanks for sharing.
Thanks for watching Janet!
Great job. Absolutely LOVED the music 🎶 !
Glad you enjoyed it!
I recognize the music and yes David "What a wonderful Friend we have in Jesus".
Amen!
Good video. BLACKBERRIES are growing at the beaver dams! and it's a nice day today!
I'll try to get over there sometime and see whats happening :)
Na ez kemény volt! Le a kalappal, ügyes! 👏👏👏
Köszönöm Icu!
Love your background music. I have a similar project to tackle in my back yard. It was good to see how you mastered it. Well done!
Great job!
Thank you Linda!
Wanted to plant English ivy. Saw your video, forget about it. Great job.
It's better left in England :)
Very Good JOB Keep up the good Work!!!
Thank you Bill!
Nice video man😀
Bumblebees; always our friend. Even their sting is gentle.
Not sure what kind of bumble bees are stinging you😅
Me and my son are going to be tackling ivy today in an overgrown garden. We have also tackled a huge blackberry bush before, we basicly just chopped it up into pieces and bagged it. You can use a hedge cutter too. Was hard work especially dealing with the thorns. just wear your gloves. We're in the UK. It's going to be a long day for us. Thanks for the video.
God Bless
Thank you Lola!
I really enjoyed your music during your video, you don’t hear that type of music much anymore. You did a wonderful job, I have Ivy from my neighbors house that I battle all the time and it is terribly hard stuff to get rid of. I have heard in Oregon that we can’t even buy it anymore because it is so invasive they won’t sell it. Keep up the good work and the good music.
Thanks Sandy! Yes, the English Ivy is a huge problem around here. Once it gets going it starts choking everything else out.
I wish I could get someone to help me get rid of the ivy at my mom’s house. You did a great job!
One minute into the video and I’m also loving the music. What a friend we have in Jesus!
Love your choice of music!! ❤❤❤
Thank you Cheryl! 😁👍
Just started watching your videos, I enjoy how hard you work. I especially enjoy your background music 🎶
God bless and keep up the good work. 🙏😎👍🇺🇲
Thank you Donald!
Hola🙋♀️..buen trabajo💪👏..linda musica🎵..la conozco como musica🎼✝️ cristiana. Bendiciones David. Cuidate. Saludos.🇨🇱
Gracias Maria!
isso mesmo as músicas conheço cantamos na minha igreja amei, piano violão maravilhoso!! o trabalho muito bom parabéns vou me inscrever.
Fabulous job! I'm so glad you removed it from around the trees as it will eventually choke a tree and that's another problem for the homeowner to remove dead trees. Snakes also like to be in the ivy and with that wood pile, I'm surprised you didn't come across one.
Thanks Sandra! There was 1 snake that was hiding out by the tree, but it wasn't a threat.
Love the Hymn
Thanks Dianna!
Good video 👍
Thank you! 😁👍
Praise the lord. Bless u. Doin it in his name. Watch ur business take off. 💕😉
Glory to God! Thank you Rhonda! Amen, may it take off! :)
Hi Bertha from San Antonio Texas. Wow sorry you got stung and it's notice able. You made that look easy but I am sure it wasn't. Great job!!!
Thanks Bertha!
I just started on a big patch of ivy this morning. I expect the extraction to take me 2 weeks! Lol! I'm not nearly as young as you are😁
Nice job, youngin'!
I love your choice of music!
Thanks Darlene!
Brilliant job well done,sorry you found bumble twice,my pet dislike is ivy so where it grows gets a 3 litres of white vinegar then dig out roots,grand to see the area looking easier to handle by owner...bless you ..
Thank you Jan! I appreciate it!
Great job guys.
Ivy is a total nightmare to remove. I’m in the process of removing ivy from someone’s garden, it’s growing through the grass & everywhere 😰
Amei seu trabalho é música
obrigada!
Oh man, that was a lot of work!
It sure was, but it was fine and dandy!
lots of hard work.. i have had to deal with English Ivy in the past so I can imagine the work level
Yes, it is very tough, it requires a good amount of patience.
I think Ivy is so beautiful but unfortunately very invasive. I love gardening but leaning down like that for an extended time is horrible for the back. You worked so very hard, even stung but did an amazing job. Btw, bumble bees are scary, so are spiders!
It did get a little uncomfortable, but stretching helps a lot! Thanks Suzanne!
Love love love the music! Great job too! ❤️🇨🇦
Thank you Dorian!
The English ivy always looks pretty..but it can be a nuisance for sure...nice work!!
Thank you Anne!
Love both the ivy removal & the music
Thanks Helen! I’m glad you liked it
Love the job you're doing, the music in the background is awesome 👌
Thank you Helen!
Klobouk dolů. To muselo dát neskutečnou dřinu. Břečťan se strašně špatně likviduje a vy jste to zvládnul dokonale. Jste jednička. Přeji hodně sil a zdraví do podobných projektů. 👍👍👍👏👏👏🥰
Děkuji Jana! Tyto typy projektů vyžadují spoustu času a energie :)
Me gusta la música,Que Amigo no es Cristo, lindo Himno
Me gusta también!
The music like "Ibu Pertiwi song" salam from Indonesia🇲🇨
It actually has a very similar melody! The song here is "What a friend we have in Jesus" greetings from the USA!
Good afternoon. I just love the music today. You did a great job as always. But I will like to know. Do you work for yourself or for someone. What is it exactly what you do. Or are you starting to work for yourself. Karima South Africa
Hi Karima, I work for myself, here I work as a landscaper and I specifically focus on the maintenance of properties.
Runaway Dave!
Drove away from this job all complete😅
@@golovinpropertyservices and one bumblebee sting! Ouch!
Have you ever used an Oregon Mulching blade on a brushcutter to tear through the ivy? I know they've quite popular over in England for just that, but it seems like a folks on this side of the pond don't know about them.
I have used the blade on another job due to them being so thick. I couldn’t even cut through most of the large roots due to them being so thick and large. I think it would work really well on smaller and fresh ivy.
In Georgia it's bee nests and snakes with the English ivy.
You’re so right!! It’s the end of April and I’m getting ready to do this. I have a large area along the driveway that has ivy starting to clim up the trees. It’s coming from the neighbor. I’m planing to weed eat first so there are no snake surprises. Don’t want to reach in and come out with copperhead. I figure once I do that I can use the lawnmower on it until I get it pulled. I’m a 68 year old so will probably take me a few weeks working a little everyday. I have a sick husband so have to do things and hour here and an hour there.
I like the backsound music.. looks like from Indonesian song
Wonderful job brother! Like that song! I have decided it to follow Jesus, im not going back...
Thank you! Amen!
Love the music but I really wanted to know how your cleaning it up
I used a hand saw to cut through the vines from the surface to the ground and then I would cut sections.
After cutting each section I would roll up and pull the Ivy vines. It’s a lot better then trying to pull each individual vine separately.
Oh how i hate ivy but you done a great job you worked very hard i hope they realise and appreciate what you did for them
Thank you Doreen!
So how do you remove it in a way to be sure it won’t grow back? Do you have to pull the roots of each bundle, straight from the ground, or are you sawing it all down and then spraying some weed killer to get the roots?
I cut the ivy into sections and as I rolled it up I would pull the roots out as well. When I was sawing I would cut into the layer of dirt and cut the ivy vine roots as well. But after a job like this, to permanently prevent the ivy from growing back, a herbicide will keep things in check.
@@golovinpropertyservices Thank you man! You see a lot of creeping ivy in Michigan so when I’m a homeowner I will need to know how to get rid of it haha
Great job! Don’t like music on yard transformations
Sometimes we do, sometimes we don’t!
How will you prevent it from going back?
Well I ripped up all the roots, removing the roots is a sure way to keep them from growing back.
Did you also remove the roots?. .if not, they will come back very, very fast.
I pulled the roots up as best as I could. When I went around the area it did seem that everything was uprooted.
@@golovinpropertyservices Some of those roots have a ball type root at the bottom where all those vines come from. You have to take out that ball of root down there.
What tool were you using to cut the vines? Thanks!
It's a Fiskars handsaw.
@@golovinpropertyservices thanks! can you suggest a hand tool that would help cut down scrub bushes (especially the roots/branches that are a foot off the ground)?
@@golovinpropertyservices thanks!
Remove the ivy around the Bumble's nests after dark.
Yes, that's a great idea!
Well done. It’s a horrible job because ivy is unbelievably tough and stubborn to wrestle with.
How did yo not get poisionedz?
I use full strength Agent Orange on English Ivy. Man how I hate that stuff. Mine grows from neighbors yard, invades my trellis where Climatis and Cardinal Climbers and Morning Glories once thrived. Terminate....with extreme prejudice
Wow that’s some serious work you’ve got there. This property inherited their ivy from the neighbors as well.
That could be hornets if its in the ground.
I'm glad it wasn't hornets. But they were nice little bumblebees :)
Surely you came back to remove rest of the garbage?
It was an ivy removal not a garbage removal ;)
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Ivy; always poisonous, never your friend.
This is just regular ivy, it’s a great thing it’s not poisonous!
Just a CLARIFICATION on the previous comment of Sarah Rose...the "Lol POp". Gibberish... Was not part of my text.... I only saw it after the text was sent ...I consider it a mistake... The only thing applied to the ground was black plastic sheeting/waterproof and light canceling/ NO CHEMICAL POISONS ADDED...🙋🌹👍
Opinion, I feel the time-lapse is a wee-bit too fast sir. Can't tell what's going on. Just u zooming around lol 😆.
I was wondering why you were calling it a flower bed because even if that's the goal going forward there's a gazillion roots of the ivy underground that will never allow that area to become a flower bed unless some black plastic sheeting and months of letting those ivy roots cook underneath it. Lol PO p is applied....6 months to a year... And only when you check underneath it periodically and there are NO white or light green growths can you begin a new "flower bed"...SAD BUT TRUE...
Why don't landscapers ever carry wasp spray? I would think that would be a necessity
We usually don't really expect any wasps or stinging insects.
I thought Ivy was good and healthy. Lol
All depends where you’re from.
You know, I honestly thought English Ivy was so cool... you see all the beautiful homes in Europe with it..... but BOY OH BOY, was I stupid!!! Flipping awful nasty INVASIVE crap, that's nearly impossible to KILL...... Oh I feel for you!
You didn’t get all the roots. It’ll all come back. You can’t pull ivy from above and expect that all the roots will come up - even in ideal soil. You have to loosen the soil and lift them out using a pick mattock. Then scoop your gloved hand in the dirt to feel for vertical tap roots, that you then have to pull out.
But when I pull ivy, I first use a cordless reciprocating saw, with a 12” carbide tipped pruning saw blade, to cut through the ivy vines and roots into small 6” or 12” surface squares. Once that’s done, you can rake off most of the, now unconnected, vines. And when you grub with the mattock, you shouldn’t have to pull out your priming saw very often to cut vines or roots; they’re already cut.
As far as bumblebees and yellow-jackets go, I’ve had so many jobs interrupted by nests, that I started to carry a bee suit so that I could deal with the nests and finish the job.
better before...
It all depends on the person. That's how the client wanted it.