Re: Getting rid of poison ivey/ poison oak??

Posted by UFO Man on July 21, 2004 at 17:34:01 from (66.243.138.22):

In Reply to: Getting rid of poison ivey/ poison oak?? posted by cheap_dave on July 19, 2004 at 18:10:47:

Dave, there was an episode on "Ask This Old House" just the other day. If you cannot use a systemic poison, like "BrushBGone", you have to tear it out. I agree on the method that they used, it is the only way that I have ever been able to control this vine. We have horses and cannot use herbicides.

PULL it up by the roots, double bag it and send it to the land fill. Mulch 6 inched deep over the area with wood mulch. The roots left in the ground will not be able to send up vine far enough through the mulch to get started and will die.

When you pull it, wear long sleeve heavy shirt with gloves, taped where the shirt and gloves meet. Tape your jeans to your boots at the cuff. Wear goggles, poison ivy in the eyes must be miserable.

Wash your clothes with an oil cutting detergent or double bag them and send them to the land fill. Wash any exposed skin and any skin that touched the outside of your clothes with an oil cutting detergent or soap and COLD water. Warm water opens your pores and the ivy oil will get into your skin.

This is hard work, but pays off. Cutting it only encourages the growth.

Luckily, neither me or my wife are allergic to this vine, but I don't like it on the property. I spent the first five years pulling gobs of it up by the roots. Since then, there has been little volunteer growth, which gets yanked out by the root.

Good Luck, UFO Man

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