Will ivy penetrate a weed barrier and hardcore layer??

[ampere]

How tough IS it?

I cleared a 2 foot wide strip alongside the gravel drive- this sort of melds into a wide nature strip alongside. The understorey is pure ivy! I hoiked it out but obviously have left many roots and rootlets.

If I dig out 10cm of soil, edge the cleared area with concreted-in 'kerbing'; put a weed barrier on the exposed soil, fill it with 5cm hardcore and 3 cms of pebble, is the ivy likely to break through? I will attempt to prevent spread across the ground by using the kerb as a pruning line but I am worried that the ivy runners will manage to break up through into the gravel.

I know it's not a triffid but it IS tenacious!

[ppeatfruit]

Sorry amperere .you may find this odd but i have given up the battle with ivy and find it works rather well to keep other weeds at bay.

Not completely of course! I also discovered that there are insects that eat nasties which live on ivy so it's not all bad. Birds like it as well.

[LadyBiscuit]

You could put glyphosate down on it before the weed barrier. It's a systemic weedkiller which is absorbed into the plant and doesn't remain in the soil so it's the only weedkiller I use and very effective.

Having just moved a tub with ivy growing in it and realised that the reason I couldn't get it to shift at first was because the ivy had rooted into the concrete path it was standing on, I'd say yes!

[ampere]

ppeat, fair enough but if I destroy this strip it will still leave a 2m wide swathe of ivy! I also wage a constant battle to keep it under control on my garden fence (wood) as when there's enough of it, and it gets wet, and the wind blows- it snaps the fence posts!

I may try glyphosate, Biscuit as it would be painful to watch all the good work go to waste if the ivy grows on through the drive!