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!

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.

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!

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!