"Kathy" wrote in message
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I have Poison Ivy growing up the sides of my house.
It has run up to the second floor and is now
chasing the eaves. It seems like its doubling in
volume in a few days. Does anyone have any tips on
getting rid of this short of burning the house
down. I've called a bunch of lanscapers and the
only one who would give me a price wants nearly
$1000. to take it down. The must be something
similar to paraquat that I can spray on it. Anyone
know the name of the chemicals I should be looking
for? I've sprayed it with Round-up from home depot
and it just wilted it a little. In a few days you
couldn't even tell. This is my mission for this
weekend. Advice will be appriciated and snide
remarks or wise cracks will, of course, be
tolerated. (After all, this is usenet.)

Suggest spray with liquefied Beef Jerky--dilute sufficiently and you have a
marketable commodity.....


Thanks in advance for serious replies.


It's definately nasty ****, Kath.

Perhaps ( carefully ) beat it with a baseball bat first to injure the plant
tissue. Then spray....the injured tissue will likely intake any available
moisture in humidity from the available air rather than to dessicate..

Well to note probly additional urushiol is rapidly exuded in order to help
protect the plant after any tissue injury.....

If its only a few plants, suggest snip at the base--everything above should
die, this due to the subsequent inability to uptake water into the above
plant tissue.

Brush round-up at full strength on the cambium layer of any the root bases
that are left in the soil.

Treat any plant material removed as being highly hazardous......suggest
dispose onsite via deep burial....else bag and send to an approved landfill
( clearly mark the bags )

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SVL