Well you need to get a few items first, and be careful. ….and goes… So how can we eliminate poison ivy from our desired landscape? What are the old “tried and true” methods besides pulling and risking unbearable time slathered in Calamine Lotion and Benedryl with no hugs or handshakes? The poison ivy is also tangled in your wanted plants, so you can’t spray. The root is already several feet long, and now it goes, and goes…. El Nino has provided a banner year for this vine, and others. ![]() Only after this vine establishes itself, does it start to shoot upward. Germination can happen for a variety of reasons, like a wet Spring, bare soil, slow chore responses from us because of the past weather trend, or seed to soil contact. Sometimes poison ivy seed will lay dormant for years until the conditions are right. After poison ivy seeds, birds eat the seeds and then land on something, and there you go. In the midst of your roses, around the tree, along the back fence… You didn’t plant those there, did you? Nope, Ma Nature did! But she had some help from her avian friends. ![]() The weather has settled in, chores are finally getting done, blooms are coming out, veggies are producing, cookouts are commencing, vines are vining… Wait! … on the telephone pole, out in the country…Īh, the times you can spend in the garden now. Added on: J 11:08 am Poison Ivy, Pretty in Autumn, But OVER THERE!
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