IVY

[Mick Dempsey]

Spoon whittling?

[ABtrees]

28 minutes ago, Mick Dempsey said:

Spoon whittling?

Great - anyone on here got far too much time on their hands and able to shift a couple of thousand spoons ?

[sime42]

Used to make matchsticks apparently. Anyone else got even more time to shift a couple of million matchsticks?!

[Paul in the woods]

9 hours ago, sime42 said:

Here's another question.
Do we think that there is more Ivy around than there used to be? It might just be fanciful thinking on my part......... I read recently that pernicious weeds such as nettles, brambles, bracken etc are more of a problem nowadays in woodland due to fertilizer run off from farmland. Maybe this is the case for Ivy too.

Might be a good question for another thread. I would have thought with Ivy a large number of birds and other wildlife feed on it so it gets a fair bit of natural fertiliser, but as bird numbers are declining it'll get less? Perhaps attitudes have changed and it's not as frequently removed?

 

As for brambles, I've found deer love them but if you exclude deer they can grow out of control.

 

That's not to say there's not a huge problem with fertiliser and slurry run off.