rooting ivy (english) is very simple.. I have it growing up my trees these days. Neighbor across the street has it covering her chain link fence. It will root quickly in water, also if it have any long vines and you put that on the ground for a while it will "walk away"! I still have some from my bridal bouquet 11yrs ago!!! Not sure where you live, your member page didn't indicate but if you get cold winters you could also bring some inside and grow it as a house plant til spring and start all over again. It's simple to prop-gate. Good luck, Happy Gardening! Karen

If you have a relatively thin patch than just pull it out. If you have a dense patch than it is harder to remove. A dense patch will have started to form a web of vines that makes it harder to remove. Once it forms a tangled web of vines it is going to be harder to pull and more prone to snapping as you pull it because the interlocking vines form a tanlge and secure each other to the ground. Pull on a vine in this web and it will snap rather than uproot, leaving healthy fragments intact. However, with the exception thick roots (of perhaps .3" diameter or more), English Ivy is not that resilient to abuse and a dense web that is hard to remove by pulling can first be knocked weakened by weedwacking until all the leaves have been removed from the web of vines. Let it rest and weedwack again 1-2 weeks later. Wait another week or two and start pulling the vines the day after a heavy rain as vines are less likely to snap when pulled from soft wet soil. As you pull them you will find they tend to snap where passing under an intersecting vine. Dig your finger a half inch or more under the surface at the location of the break to find the intersecting vine, and uproot that one as well. This method will help you find vines just under the surface and break up the 'web', and makes for more efficient uprooting. I've removed these vines from several large areas.

All container grown plants eventually need to be tended to. A woody plant such as your ivy can be lifted from the pot, root pruned, then returned to the same container, which should be scrubbed beforehand. Brand new potting medium should be employed, of course. This is not an ideal time of year to take on this chore; wait until spring. Oops, just saw that this was posted in Sept. Hopefully, you realized that this is not the best forum for your question and found some help in another, lol. This post was edited by rhizo_1 on Tue, Jan 27, 15 at 9:30

It takes a while for plants to establish themselves when you repot them. They are probably busy growing new roots, and adapting to their new environment. I don't know how fast you expect ivy to grow, but if its grown a few new leaves and is a little taller in its first month, that sounds pretty reasonable.