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I wasn't allergic to it either, until about 2 years ago.....and then it
brushed against my arm as I pulled it out with gloved hands. I had it over my entire upper body by the time it was done with me. It took two courses of steroids and lost time working in a neonatal ICU because it was just a mess...so I have a healthy respect for it. It might not bother you this year...but it might be havoc for a visitor. Now I get the brush killer stuff right up close to it, with a paper plate cut, so it forms a collar and I just spray that plant. Then after it is dead, I use a plastic bag, grab it from the inside out and tie it up. Works like a charm. It comes up right by my pond also. I'd get rid of it....like I said, never was allergic, even walked through it....but then one fine day, years later........"Leaves of three...let it be" Maureen Galen Hekhuis wrote: I'm showing off some of the plants I put in at the edge of one of my ponds and the person I was showing them off to pointed to another plant and said: "Uh, isn't that poison ivy?" Now I'm not allergic to poison ivy or any other stuff like that (I would have known, I planted some stuff right in the middle of a poison ivy patch, there's no way I could have avoided it.) so I've never really tried to watch out for it or even learn to identify it too well. I Googled up a bunch of stuff on it and the pictures look like it so I'm pretty sure that's what it is and even though it doesn't do anything to me it still creeps me out. The past few weeks I've been looking around for it and have found it only in three places. Unfortunately they are at the edges of ponds and places that I have bush hogged recently. I've bush hogged lots of other places where poison ivy has not sprung up so I don't think the bush hog is infected or anything. I do wonder if I am creating especially inviting places for poison ivy (and if so, how to avoid doing it) by creating tree/pond/grassy interfaces. What is the best way to get rid of what I have growing? I took a squirt bottle of Round-up (tm) to it and then thought that Round-up might not be the best thing. I'm not really opposed to the "Kill them all, let God sort it out" theory of scorched earth weed killing, but there are a bunch of neat little critters that live in those ponds and I'd really hate to screw up their home. Short of digging out individual plants by the roots (I may resort to that) is there any kind, gentle way to kill the evil weed? Galen Hekhuis NpD, JFR, GWA Illiterate? Write for FREE help |
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