Kathy wrote:

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.)

Thanks in advance for serious replies.

Kathy


I cur it off at the base and let the vines die, then when the roots
start to put out new ivy in a few weeks or a month and it is a small
area of green then I hit it with round up. Kills it dead without using
a lot of chemical. make sure to cover up when working with the ivy or
poison. By then the vines have died and removal is less hazardous.
And whenever I mess with poison ivy I clean up with orange gojo any
where I might be contaminated before turning on the shower, really cuts
the oil of the plant off your body.