Poison Ivy preventative measures
- G-Patt
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Re: Poison Ivy preventative measures
I only get a rash if I accidentally weed whack it in my yard (Round Up does a great job on it instead), but mere brushing up against it doesn't seem to be an issue. Even so, I just avoid it altogether, look for a different set on the ground or a different tree. Just not worth the hassle if you get it as bad as you do.
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- Huntress13
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G-Patt wrote:I only get a rash if I accidentally weed whack it in my yard (Round Up does a great job on it instead), but mere brushing up against it doesn't seem to be an issue. Even so, I just avoid it altogether, look for a different set on the ground or a different tree. Just not worth the hassle if you get it as bad as you do.
Yeah, that's what I've been doing. But I'm finding that a limiting factor when I try to fine tune the setups to be in exactly the right spot for the best opportunity. I've been trying to learn from Dan's videos how to choose that right killing tree, but I get there and the tree is poison as are several more around it, and I end up too many yards the wrong way because that was the closest clean tree.
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Re: Poison Ivy preventative measures
Huntress13 wrote:G-Patt wrote:I only get a rash if I accidentally weed whack it in my yard (Round Up does a great job on it instead), but mere brushing up against it doesn't seem to be an issue. Even so, I just avoid it altogether, look for a different set on the ground or a different tree. Just not worth the hassle if you get it as bad as you do.
Yeah, that's what I've been doing. But I'm finding that a limiting factor when I try to fine tune the setups to be in exactly the right spot for the best opportunity. I've been trying to learn from Dan's videos how to choose that right killing tree, but I get there and the tree is poison as are several more around it, and I end up too many yards the wrong way because that was the closest clean tree.
My trees here are loaded up too. One thing I started doing about 15 yrs ago here was chopping the vine with a hatchet close to the ground. Then I spray with roundup. The vine climbing the tree does very quickly, the vine going into the ground sucks up some of that glyphosate and knocks it back pretty good. Easier to maintain the following years after doing that.
I did the especially with trees that I wanted to cut down, I’d kill off the vine and the following year I could cut the tree .
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