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| faithmarie |
Posted - May 11 2009 : 07:31:14 AM
Is there anything good about poison ivy?
How can you get rid of it without using monsanto sprays?
I remember in the 70s everyone was talking to their plants.... I still say stuff to my flowers and garlic and stuff... but I have cursed and yelled "DIE pioson ivy" to the poison ivy but it doesn't!
Is there any hope for poison ivy problems?
We are all highly alergic.
Thanks!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
To every thing there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven
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| faithmarie |
Posted - May 19 2009 : 12:23:40 PM
I am gona try gas too then. i will try anything. It is almost worth killing my other plants to get rid of it!!!!!!!!!!!
The state flower should be poison ivy!
I lived in california for 11 years and never saw it ever.
To every thing there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven
Farmgirl sister # 34 |
| Diane B Carter |
Posted - May 19 2009 : 11:34:37 AM
My DH got into it when he helped me put in a few plants before he left for SD. He stopped in to say he would call me when they got there. I got a phone call when they got to Chicago. He got a room and was slightly itching on the drive there, the hot water really broke him out and he apparently was a real mess. He showed the 2 guys who went with him and asked them to find out where the local hospital was. They called 911. He was really embarrassed, The doctor told him it was poison ivy. I broke out but according to him he was a real mess. He came homeand poured gas all over the neighbors fence line. We did not burn it. He only poured the gas on it and for the first time in years I didn't come down with it. It is nasty. Good luck.
Hope all your days are Sunnydays.
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| faithmarie |
Posted - May 19 2009 : 06:48:33 AM
That is terrable... getting poison ivy while you sleep.
I tried the vinegar on my poison ivy.... yes I got it ...I got it good, and it worked amazing!!!!!!!!!!!!!! My husbad got it too and I put it on him and he was saying... all these years we could have been using this!!!! It even is drying it up!
Thank you sooooooo much Annab!
I used the ortho poison ivy spray but it is still growing... the leaves shriviled a little but it is still going strong.
I think someone who is not allergic to it could make a killing going to houses and cleaning out poison ivy ....I know I would pay almost any amount to get rid of it!!!!!!!!!!
To every thing there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven
Farmgirl sister # 34 |
| Windsong |
Posted - May 14 2009 : 11:11:44 PM
Oh, what I learned from poison ivy! Ouch! First of all when I had not lived in the country but a couple of years I started breaking out. On my face mostly and it was not pretty. I went to the Dr and he diagnosed shingles. As the weeks wore on it was spreading to all over my face and even the corners of my mouth were bleeding. The last week I had to cancelmy work appointments because I just looked so bad. And it was spreading to my arms and legs. Shingles does not do this. I finally gave up and drove into the city to a dermatologist who took one look and said....."HONEY, where did you get in the poison ivy?" I said I did not know. Well, long story short it was early summer and the nights were so wonderful I slept with the windows open. The poison ivy was pollenating and it was airborne. So it had settled on my pillows that I slept on. Dr. told me to close the windows turn on the AC and use some certain lotion and it did all get better.
But all of that said and how I react and am allergic I will not use the poison stuff to get rid of it. At least not to spray it. Poison ivy usually grows around trees and those sprays can harm trees. I love my trees. But once on a gardening show on the radio I heard this and I would think it would be good to try. They said to wait until fall when the plant is pulling its energy back into the root system and cut the stem. Then take a bottle (could be coke bottle or smaller) and put round up in it and put the cut end of the growing stem into the bottle and wrap with tape around the bottle opening. This way the stem pulls the round up into its root system and kills it out from there. It sounded smart to me.
For several years I did not seem to have any. Maybe the grasshoppers killed it off but this year seems to be a bumper year for it. I think I will try it this fall.
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| Woodswoman |
Posted - May 14 2009 : 4:58:37 PM
This is second hand, but a fellow teacher that I work with swears that his chickens have eaten all of the poison ivy from his yard (and no, did not affect the eggs).
Jennifer
Farmgirl Sister #104
"Nature brings to every time and season some beauties of its own".
-Charles Dickens |
| prariehawk |
Posted - May 12 2009 : 8:52:22 PM
Yes, it is funny--but there really is a guy around here who has a business called Rent-A-Goat. He rents his goats out to people and programs interested in preserving the prairie in the midwest. The goats are good for the prairie--some say having the goats forage is better for the prairies than controlled burning. Prairies have to be burned once a year to control invasive species. We have some hill prairies around here, which aren't suitable for burning, but the goats work just fine. Just don't want to be standing on the edge of the bluffs where there's a hill prairie and have a goat come up behind me--he might butt me and push me off!
Cindy
(I know this has nothing to do with poison ivy, but I really like goats)
"Dog is my co-pilot"
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| faithmarie |
Posted - May 12 2009 : 05:40:13 AM
Thank you everyone!
Lisamarie... That was a great website.... I liked the little video it was great.
I have goats they have to many other things they like to eat....in my garden. he he
I can lead them to the poison ivy but I can't make them eat it!!!
I pulled alot yesterday but there is so much more. I think I will get some spray,I'm just worried I will kill the other plants.
I would like to get one of those hazard suits for nuclear waste and wear that to pull the ivy!
To every thing there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven
Farmgirl sister # 34 |
| Miss Bee Haven |
Posted - May 12 2009 : 05:05:11 AM
Brush B Gone will kill woody vines like poison ivy and poison oak. It is made by Ortho. But it does work. In fact, I need to get some myself. You mix it with water and spray it(wear gloves). I don't know what's in it. But if you've got a poison ivy infestation, sometimes desperate measures are necessary(I've even gotten it when one of my dogs touched it next to a fence in the back yard.).
Farmgirl Sister #50
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| lisamarie508 |
Posted - May 12 2009 : 04:05:24 AM
Rent-a-goat...that's funny, Cindy!
Farmgirl Sister #35
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| Annab |
Posted - May 12 2009 : 03:43:21 AM
Try using a lot of vinegar
Look up Harmony products online
They manufacture something called Burnout that's not supposed to be toxic
They also make lawn products that are safe for people and pets |
| prariehawk |
Posted - May 11 2009 : 8:26:17 PM
Regarding the goats--there are now some people around the country who are renting out their goats just to get rid of problems like this. I don't know what you'd google--rent-a-goat?
Cindy
"Dog is my co-pilot"
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| lisamarie508 |
Posted - May 11 2009 : 7:59:58 PM
Here are three sites I found. I like the goat idea, but you may not be in a place where that is practical. One of the sites recommends smothering it with black plastic, old carpeting, newspapers, etc and then digging up all the roots after the plants are dead (wearing protection). I don't know that digging up the roots is a viable option - if you miss any, it'll be back and you'll have gone through all that work for nothing. I think if I did the smothering idea, I'd leave the material on the ground and just put new dirt over top of it or build raised beds over top.
Otherwise, they all recommend using triple strength RoundUp. I won't use chemicals in my yard, but that's me. I hope you find something useful here and good luck!
http://www.wikihow.com/Get-Rid-of-Poison-Ivy-Plants
http://www.poison-ivy.org/html/faq.htm
http://landscaping.about.com/cs/weedsdiseases/a/poison_ivy_3.htm
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| faithmarie |
Posted - May 11 2009 : 4:40:04 PM
Thanks for the reply! I know it is sooooo awful. I know you can end in the hospital if you burn it, it can get in your lungs and thoat...and the smoke can blow on you and you'll get it on where ever the smoke touches you.
I just can't get rid of it around my house. I feel like I am in jumanji sometimes!
I searched all forums and came up with only one saying vinager can stop the itching.
To every thing there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven
Farmgirl sister # 34 |
| lisamarie508 |
Posted - May 11 2009 : 3:05:28 PM
Seems there was another thread in here somewhere during the winter about this. I don't remember what was said, other than DON'T burn it! The...gosh I can't think of the word for it...nasty stuff from the plant will fill the air and you will breathe it in and allergic or not that would be VERY bad. Check through the threads here in Garden Gate. I'm sure it's in here somewhere.
Farmgirl Sister #35
"If you can not do great things, do small things in a great way." Napoleon Hill (1883-1970)
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