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LuckyMommyof5
True Blue Farmgirl
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Suzanne
OH
USA
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 Posted - Jan 20 2012 : 12:32:54 PM
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This is a long gardening story, so I will try to cut to the chase.
We have a fenced in property and shortly after we moved into our house (about 8 1/2 years ago) I was just walking the fence to check for any maintenance issues and noticed a HUGE patch of poison ivy growing on the other side - in the neighbor's yard. I let them know about this (because I was worried they didn't see it and might run into it) and they said, "Yeah, thanks, whatever."
I kept an eye on this, because I quickly realized they weren't going to do anything about it. I watched it climb up their back trees and form into huge vines and grow on the ground in their yard exponentially. Up until a few years ago, it didn't infiltrate our property, then it did, of course.
I've dug it out (CAREFULLY) year after year, but it's a lot of stressful work (and they have no desire, apparently, to eliminate it in their yard, although I don't know why!)
I swear, many years ago when I used to read gardening books before I even had a yard, I read about putting in certain kinds of plants after you dig out the poison ivy that "chokes it out" from growing in certain areas. For the life of me, I can't remember what plant this is and I can't seem to find a reference for it anywhere else in all the current garden books I have.
Does anyone know a plant that chokes out poison ivy?
Farmgirl Sister #3243
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Edited by - LuckyMommyof5 on Jan 20 2012 12:36:18 PM |
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sjmjgirl
True Blue Farmgirl
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Stephanie
Mt. Vernon
Iowa
USA
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Posted - Jan 20 2012 : 5:32:17 PM
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I happened to be looking around the Internet for gardening info & I found this site that might help: http://www.wildflower.org/expert/show.php?id=5934. As a last resort,you may want to try Ortho Brush B Gone if you're not opposed to chemical control. Poison Ivy is a tough one, good luck!
Farmgirl Sister # 3810
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Melina
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Melina
USA
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Posted - Jan 20 2012 : 8:26:31 PM
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When we moved to Arkansas, we found a back yard full of the stuff and sadly, it was growing over, under, and around a pile of bricks left from the construction about 10 years before. A very well established patch, it was. We got a dozen hens and a rooster, turned them into the yard, and they ate it and scratched it out in one season. It never came back, so I have to assume they managed to get all the roots, too.
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