I let a wild ivy plant that sprouted up in a raised garden bed grow over this summer, with plans of transplanting it to hide a fence section one day. With fall planting times coming closer, it seemed to me today would be a good day to finally try to transplant the ivy. I say "try" because I have no idea if it'll survive the transplant or not. I moved the vines around a bit to show where it's been growing almost all summer:
Here is what it looked like after I started digging around the far edges to try and not dig right through a root:
I was very surprised to find not just 1, but 2 different wild ivy plants:
Even though the roots didn't seem to be connected, the 2 ivy plants' vines were very tangled up with each other above ground. I very carefully untwisted the vines and ended up with 1 ivy plant with many more vines than the other:
I very carefully buried the roots of each plant in 2 different pots, and used the same dirt that they were growing in originally:
I moved them to the other size of the house where I really am hoping they will grow. I guess now I better get to figuring out how to build some sort of trellis for them to grow up on.