Where to put the ivy?

[animartco]

Originally Posted by Dragonyka

I have a (small) dilema.

I have recently found an ivy plant growing in the middle of a fruit bed in my garden. I have been reading the 'importance of ivy' thread with interest and rather than just digging the ivy up and composting it I was wondering what the best thing to do with it would be.

I've come up with two, make that three, options:-
1) Move the ivy closer to a large sycamore tree in the corner of our garden in the hope that it will grow up the tree.

2) Move it to the 'wildlife area' in my allotment where it can grow freely. This is a new allotment with a pond that I've just put in and I'm trying to make this section as wildlife friendly as possible. Currently, there is very little plant life in it.

3) Will the plant root in different places so I could split it and do both?

Any advice or suggestions would be appreciated.

Thanks

Nicola

Don't put ivy in your allotment! Ivy is a real pest when it travels over rich dig soil. It puts down roots every six inches or so and some of these can be quite deep. The connecting wood is very hard, and the whole thing gets matted and it takes some digging out! It is a question of not being a weed only if in the right place, and the right place is under the shade of a tree, or in a hedge, with a trunk or better still many trunks to climb up, and no dug soil anywhere near.