Fence and ivy problem

Hi
About a year ago we bought a fence to replace an older broken one seperating our garden and our neighbour's. It's 6ft tall and is made up of lots of planks nailed together (i think it's called slatted?)
Our neighbour has loads of weedy, pesky ivy crawling up his side of the fence and more importantly through the fence panels which is slowly breaking the fence apart. He is disabled and so we don't want to pester him to sort the ivy out. I keep spraying any ivy which comes through with weed killer but i want to put trellis onto the fence and so eventually weed killer won't be able to be used (or it'll kill the plants!)

Is there some sort of filler we can spread between all the fence pannelling to stop the ivy crawling through?

hope you can help!!!
thanks
HP

 

If you use a filler it won't stop the ivy as they throw out runners and will come up through the soil. You'd probably be better off using a paint on killer. Failing that a liquid weedkiller that kills ivy could be painted on with a brush so there would be no problem with your other plants.