Charlie wrote in
:

quoting me instead of Jim
Ain't it funny all this talk 'bout glyphospate bein' a
pesticide and liscensing and technicalities and such.
Round-up kills. It is poison. Your use of such contributes
to the poisioning of my grandchildren.

i doubt sincerely my use of glyphosphate, as method of last
resort, against poison ivy (to which i have a violent allergy,
plus the 'remedies' for said allergy give me hives worse than
the PI) is going to affect your grandchildren. i do not spray
the stuff (wasteful, ineffective). i cut the vines & paint the
open wound. doesn't even faze the other weeds at the base of
the tree. does a good job of killing the evil vines though.
just cutting the vine kills the upper portion, but PI regrows
readily from the roots. painting glyphosphate on the cut kills
the roots. i do agree that spraying glyphosphate is a bad
thing, and spraying PI doesn't do anything toward killing the
stuff unless you get a windless, dry week in very early spring
as the leaves are just budding (which never happens around
here anyway).
if you can prove to me that this method is causing
glyphosphate drift into the soil/water, i'll look into another
method. as it stands now though, the PI has to go, & this is
the best option i can find.
lee