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Rooting English Ivy Cuttings to Cover Stumps

Take 12-inch vine sections, strip lower leaves. Make 8-inch deep slits in soil with a shovel, insert leafless end, orient leafy tip toward stump. Firm soil. Water every few days until tips grow. Fertilize twice in summer. Full coverage by fall.

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