Everyone knows (or should know) what poison Ivy looks like.

But this one really took me by surprise....

js

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On 10/2/07 9:17 AM, in article , "Jack
Schmidling" wrote:

Everyone knows (or should know) what poison Ivy looks like.

But this one really took me by surprise....

js


Just found some in my perennial bed. I'm waiting until fall is truly here
(and after my parent's 50 anniversary party) to get the rubber gloves out.
After the last round and needing steroids to cure it, I'm taking no chances.

C

Cheryl Isaak wrote:
On 10/2/07 9:17 AM, in article , "Jack
Schmidling" wrote:

Everyone knows (or should know) what poison Ivy looks like.

But this one really took me by surprise....

js


Just found some in my perennial bed. I'm waiting until fall is truly here
(and after my parent's 50 anniversary party) to get the rubber gloves out.
After the last round and needing steroids to cure it, I'm taking no chances.

Denature the irritant on yourself and your tools with a moderately
strong alkali. Brown laundry soap (which contains some of the lye used
to make it) was once recommended, but it's hard to find and household
ammonia works much better. When I dealt with a large infestation last
year -- four trees had been overgrown with it for years -- I covered up
as completely as I could, then rinsed all exposed skin with ammonia when
done. I changed, bagged the clothes, rinsed again, and showered, I
washed the clothes when I got home after soaking them in ammonia. Nary a
blister.

Jerry
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On 10/2/07 12:01 PM, in article ,
"Jerry Avins" wrote:

Cheryl Isaak wrote:
On 10/2/07 9:17 AM, in article , "Jack
Schmidling" wrote:

Everyone knows (or should know) what poison Ivy looks like.

But this one really took me by surprise....

js


Just found some in my perennial bed. I'm waiting until fall is truly here
(and after my parent's 50 anniversary party) to get the rubber gloves out.
After the last round and needing steroids to cure it, I'm taking no chances.

Denature the irritant on yourself and your tools with a moderately
strong alkali. Brown laundry soap (which contains some of the lye used
to make it) was once recommended, but it's hard to find and household
ammonia works much better. When I dealt with a large infestation last
year -- four trees had been overgrown with it for years -- I covered up
as completely as I could, then rinsed all exposed skin with ammonia when
done. I changed, bagged the clothes, rinsed again, and showered, I
washed the clothes when I got home after soaking them in ammonia. Nary a
blister.

Jerry

I basically got the PI in my blood stream and even though the initial
contact was only on my arm, it was erupting on my face and neck and a few
less comfortable spots. So for me it is rubber gloves, straight into a bag
with the lot (fortunately only a single vine) and a through wash for myself
and the clothes with the Rx soap. Not taking a single chance on repeat.

C

On Tue, 02 Oct 2007 12:11:03 -0400, Cheryl Isaak
wrote:

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I basically got the PI in my blood stream and even though the initial
contact was only on my arm, it was erupting on my face and neck and a few
less comfortable spots. So for me it is rubber gloves, straight into a bag
with the lot (fortunately only a single vine) and a through wash for myself
and the clothes with the Rx soap. Not taking a single chance on repeat.

C

I would just zap it with glyphosate and get the root for
sure too (shrug). Don't have to handle it that way. Let it
die back to the point that you can't tell what it was
anymore. By next spring it shouldn't be of any problem.

If you have desirables mixed in with it, hold something like
cardboard up by it as a backstop so the over spray doesn't
hit them.

--
Leon Fisk
Grand Rapids MI/Zone 5b
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On 10/2/07 1:16 PM, in article ,
"Leon Fisk" wrote:

On Tue, 02 Oct 2007 12:11:03 -0400, Cheryl Isaak
wrote:

snip
I basically got the PI in my blood stream and even though the initial
contact was only on my arm, it was erupting on my face and neck and a few
less comfortable spots. So for me it is rubber gloves, straight into a bag
with the lot (fortunately only a single vine) and a through wash for myself
and the clothes with the Rx soap. Not taking a single chance on repeat.

C

I would just zap it with glyphosate and get the root for
sure too (shrug). Don't have to handle it that way. Let it
die back to the point that you can't tell what it was
anymore. By next spring it shouldn't be of any problem.

If you have desirables mixed in with it, hold something like
cardboard up by it as a backstop so the over spray doesn't
hit them.

It is in the center of a large, expensive desirable. It a little vine, so I
should be able to get it all with plastic knife.
Cheryl

eon Fisk wrote:
On Tue, 02 Oct 2007 12:11:03 -0400, Cheryl Isaak
wrote:

snip
I basically got the PI in my blood stream and even though the initial
contact was only on my arm, it was erupting on my face and neck and a few
less comfortable spots. So for me it is rubber gloves, straight into a bag
with the lot (fortunately only a single vine) and a through wash for myself
and the clothes with the Rx soap. Not taking a single chance on repeat.

C

I would just zap it with glyphosate and get the root for
sure too (shrug). Don't have to handle it that way. Let it
die back to the point that you can't tell what it was
anymore. By next spring it shouldn't be of any problem.

If you have desirables mixed in with it, hold something like
cardboard up by it as a backstop so the over spray doesn't
hit them.

How do you spray it when it's growing up a tree?

Jerry
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Engineering is the art of making what you want from things you can get.
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Jerry Avins expounded:

Denature the irritant on yourself and your tools with a moderately
strong alkali. Brown laundry soap (which contains some of the lye used
to make it) was once recommended, but it's hard to find and household

Fels Naptha soap is what you're referring to, and oldtime home
centers still carry it. It works well.
--
Ann, gardening in Zone 6a
South of Boston, Massachusetts
e-mail address is not checked
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On 10/2/07 1:29 PM, in article ,
"Ann" wrote:

Jerry Avins expounded:

Denature the irritant on yourself and your tools with a moderately
strong alkali. Brown laundry soap (which contains some of the lye used
to make it) was once recommended, but it's hard to find and household

Fels Naptha soap is what you're referring to, and oldtime home
centers still carry it. It works well.
That stuff is the greatest. I buy several bars when I find it.

C

Cheryl Isaak wrote:
On 10/2/07 1:29 PM, in article ,
"Ann" wrote:

Jerry Avins expounded:

Denature the irritant on yourself and your tools with a moderately
strong alkali. Brown laundry soap (which contains some of the lye used
to make it) was once recommended, but it's hard to find and household
Fels Naptha soap is what you're referring to, and oldtime home
centers still carry it. It works well.
That stuff is the greatest. I buy several bars when I find it.

C

I use a product called TechNu. If you think you've come into contact
simply rub it on and rinse it off. I work in ivy invested woods cutting
firewood and clearing trails and I have yet to get it after I started
using this stuff. I make it a point to never run out. By far the best
stuff I've found.

http://www.teclabsinc.com/products.c...2417&section=1



gls858

Ann wrote:
Jerry Avins expounded:

Denature the irritant on yourself and your tools with a moderately
strong alkali. Brown laundry soap (which contains some of the lye used
to make it) was once recommended, but it's hard to find and household

Fels Naptha soap is what you're referring to, and oldtime home
centers still carry it. It works well.

Octagon, too. I use ammonia because it works even better. Diluted oven
cleaner works well too.

Jerry
--
Engineering is the art of making what you want from things you can get.
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Jack Schmidling expounded:

Everyone knows (or should know) what poison Ivy looks like.

But this one really took me by surprise....

js

I pull it and bag it to get rid of it. As long as I've got gloves on
I don't have a problem. A vine that big, however, is something I
wouldn't tangle with (pun intended G). I'd cut it off at the base,
paint the cut surfaces with Brush Be Gone, and then leave it to die
off. Even the dried leaves and branches can cause irritation, so
gloves and long sleeves are needed to clean up the dead parts the
following season.

Don't burn it! The oils will vaporize in the smoke, it can kill you
to inhale it!
--
Ann, gardening in Zone 6a
South of Boston, Massachusetts
e-mail address is not checked
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Interesting, that "caged animal at the zoo" theory. Maybe that's what
the previous owner of our house was thinking, as we had a rather large
poison ivy covered tree as well (unlike the photo, it was spreading
into flowerbeds, along a fence, etc, as well as up the tree, though).

I cut off the vines around the tree and dug up the roots (with gloves,
long sleeves, shower/laundry afterwards, etc). It would have been a
big job with or without herbicide, I suspect, given the number of
other plants around (some desirable).

On Tue, 2 Oct 2007 18:46:54 +0100, Janet Baraclough
wrote:

The message
from Jack Schmidling contains these words:

Everyone knows (or should know) what poison Ivy looks like.

Not me, we don't have it in the UK

(snip)

Maybe not now, but it has been there.

Many years ago there was an article in "Pacific Horticulture" Magazine
about people in England growing Poison Oak, or maybe Poison Ivy, as an
ornamental plant.

Seemed kind of strange to me, I don't like the stuff myself.