Glyphosate is effective, but you might want to keep after it. Works best during active growth.
triclopyr(sp) is uspposed to be effective also.
For general use, I like glyphosate. Buy the concentrated one gallon generic stuff and mix to label, include a dash of detergtent (surfactant) and a bit of mineral oil if you choose.
Ortho makes a poison ivy specific herbicide. I assume that Bayer and the other major companies do as well. I have used it in the past and it works well. I’m violently allergic to poison ivy and I am unable to take steroids do to an allergy to prednisone.
I actually think that you would have better luck killing the poison ivy with the specific herbicide rather than the broad spectrum stuff like Round-Up. I don’t know why I think that…it just seems that I have heard that before.
Ortho makes a poison ivy specific herbicide. I assume that Bayer and the other major companies do as well. I have used it in the past and it works well. I’m violently allergic to poison ivy and I am unable to take steroids do to an allergy to prednisone.
I actually think that you would have better luck killing the poison ivy with the specific herbicide rather than the broad spectrum stuff like Round-Up. I don’t know why I think that…it just seems that I have heard that before.
Bernie
This is the stuff I tried:
Before I left yesterday, I did notice some good leaf curling on some of the poision sumac that was scattered among the ivy that also got sprayed.
The formulation is as follows:
18% Glyphosate, 2% Triclopyr
I’m very sensitive to posion ivy as well, but medication clears it up well.
I use Tecnu to wash with after doing yard work, but last time I forgot to wash my feet and it hit me pretty good.
I’m having relatively good luck just mowing it down and keeping it that way.
It keeps poping back up if I let the grass grow to much, but if I keep it mowed it stays down pretty well.
The “Proposed method” I’ve seen most often is using a mixture of the chemicals Bourdeux suggests with a small amount of dawn and some die.
The dawn apparently does something to break down the oils and allows a more effective spray as well as keeps people from getting poison ivy as the oils are active even after plant death. The die makes sure you spray everywhere you want and don’t miss any.
I literally have about an acre of poison Ivy to deal with at this point. I’ve probably mowed down a half an acre already
I also highly recommend some sort of anti poison Ivy soap. Wear as much clothing as possible/bearable. Do the dead, whether spraying, mowing or cleaning up and head to the shower. Cold shower combined with the anti poison soap seems to keep me relatively poison ivy free. Only a few small patches so far this year despite wading around in the stuff many times.
Worst one came when I had just mowed down a large area of Poison Ivy. Was mowing another area and ran over a piece of wire that got wrapped around the mower blades. Not thinking about it I reached under the deck and unwrapped the wire…ooooppppsss.
Funny, that is how I discoverd this patch–I was mowing it down, removing the catch bag and was using my bare hands to take the cuttings out.
Next day hands and arms start itching!
I went back and looked, sure enough, I didn’t pay close enough attention to what I was cutting, it was PI with nice white flower clusters–lot’s of volunteers starting to sprout everywhere too.
I would mow it down but most of it is on a steep sloped hill right next to the road.
I could whip out the brush cutter, but that would throw the shit everywhere.
Even mowing–because it is so dusty and scrub like–will kick up a lot of oil, and the last thing I want is to get that shit airborne.
Exactly what my neighbor did. Several years ago he ripped out a whole bunch of brush. Not realizing it was littered with PI he burnt it. Later than night he ended up in the ER as he was breathing in the smoke from the burning brush all day and his lungs became inflamed.
He decided it was not worth it to even mess with and now has a rather large heard of goats and sheep.
I was thinking of doing the same thing until my wife said I couldn’t eat them
I was thinking of doing the same thing until my wife said I couldn’t eat them
Is this just something your wife says about you owning livestock, or does it have to do with them eating PI? I’ve never heard of the goat solution, so I’m just curious.
Is this just something your wife says about you owning livestock, or does it have to do with them eating PI? I’ve never heard of the goat solution, so I’m just curious.
No you can eat goats that eat PI…my wife doesn’t want to eat something she’s met and has a face
