Poison Ivy! It's invading my garden but I don't want to use Round-Up.

[Scrivener7]

Has anyone tried the vinegar/salt spray? Does it work?

Or does anyone have any poison ivy solutions that won't kill the animals and give the people lymphomas?

[markie]

1. wear gloves and protective gear

and pull it up... best way to get rid of it... or get goats! wait, the goats will love your garden

[Scrivener7]

3. I will. I am terribly allergic, but I figure I'll get one of those painter coverall things and

booties and stuff. But man, it's all over the place. There is an old tree at the edge of the garden that is covered with it.

[bamagal62]

2. Hire someone to remove it?

[Scrivener7]

4. What would I look for? Like a professional gardener?

[bamagal62]

7. A landscaping/yard maintenance company.

If you’re severely allergic to Poison Ivy, then I imagine it would be worth it. I’m allergic and I would hire someone to do it.

[Scrivener7]

8. I will call around. It's a small plot. I wonder if it would be worth their time, but

I didn't even think of that. I will check it out.

[sheshe2]

9. My sister had her landscape company dig it up.

It will be safer for you to have them do it… I am terribly allergic to it as well. Don’t go near it.

[Scrivener7]

10. I'm going to try this. I live in a town where we landscape it ourselves, and I have one

of the plots on County land. It would be a really small job, I imagine, so it might be hard to get someone to come just for that, but I'm going to try.

(The County won't do it. )

[Goonch]

5. How to Kill Poison Ivy Without Harming Your Dogs

Use all-natural remedies in place of chemical herbicides. Spray the poison ivy with white vinegar. This method can take longer than traditional herbicides, but it won't harm your dogs. Reapply the vinegar every few days until the poison ivy plants are dead. You might also try combining 3 pounds of salt with 1 gallon of water and a 1/4 cup of liquid soap. Place the mixture in a spray bottle, and spray the poison ivy several times over a period of days until the plants are dead.
https://homeguides.sfgate.com/spray-thistles-roundup-67674.html

[Scrivener7]

6. This is what I am thinking of, but I can't find anyone who has actually used it to say that

it works.

Have you ever tried it?

[Goonch]

17. Never had any but have used this mixture on many weeds

Start with a gallon of white vinegar. The “average” vinegar is 5% acidic and will work just fine, but if you can find one that’s 10% or 20% your mixture will be more potent. Pour the vinegar into a pot and heat it over the stove. Add 1 cup of salt and stir until the salt dissolves. Let it cool, then add 2 tablespoons of liquid dish soap.

Vinegar, when diluted with a gallon of water makes a good fertilizer for acid-loving plants like azaleas, rhododendrons and blueberries. When mixed full strength with salt, it works very much like Round-Up. The dish soap helps the mixture to stick to the leaves.

Pour the mixture into a spray bottle. Set the sprayer to stream (not mist) to for better control. Once again, be careful where you spray because it will damage any leaf that it hits.

Be Patient
Spraying your plants with a systemic herbicide or the vinegar mixture will not work overnight. After its absorbed into the leaves it takes time before it destroys the root system. Give it 2 weeks, then spray the plant again if necessary. It may take more than one application to do the job. Poison ivy is a tough plant with strong roots.

[WhiteTara]

21. I add vinegar to the mix

vinegar is a good weed killer. I'm going to have to do something about ours as it affects others. I'm immune after having been covered in it for about 10 years.

[3auld6phart]

15. Roundup

is deadly. Known two nursery owners, husband and wife that passed using that crap.
Also a friend that passed from cancer,I,m sure from using round up. Do like and
think your other natural suggestions are quite OK and will work. Might take a bit
time and patience.

[Scrivener7]

22. I swear my father got the lymphoma that killed him from it. So it's not for me.

[aka-chmeee]

27. No fear of Roundup here, but ...

Regular Roundup won't kill your Poison Ivy anyway. Poison Ivy is a woody vine...herbicides for brush,etc will work, as will the Roundup made for the purpose. But, it's tough stuff and usually requires repeated applications of whatever you are using.

[Eyeball_Kid]

16. White vinegar, dishwashing soap, and epsom salts.

Find a reasonable recipe on the internet, mix the ingredients in a pump sprayer and go to town on the ivy. It might take a few applications if rain washes the mixture off the plants.

Many years ago when I lived in a secluded forest valley, I'd do a morning pee on poison oak plants that grew outside the front door of the cabin. That did the trick, but it takes a lot of pee.

[Scrivener7]

23. It's kind of public, so much as I'd like to I can't use the pee technique.

[soothsayer]

11. I've read about people hiring/borrowing goats to eat it

It doesn’t bother them at all (but they might eat your garden too)

https://www.goatstogo.farm/in-the-news/local-farm-has-goats-to-cure-baaaad-poison-ivy/

[Siwsan]

12. I use something called 'Brush Kill'

And, maybe the homemade Vinegar/Dawn/Salt mix might work.

1/2 gallon white distilled vinegar
1/4 cup salt or Epsom salt
1/2 teaspoon dish soap

Mix, dissolving salt, pour into spray bottle. I've used it on lots of things I want GONE. Just keep clear of anything you don't want to kill.

[getagrip_already]

13. How about a goat?

Goats will eat poison ivy without harm to themselves. They will eat just about any plant for that matter.

But they can be annoying as hell in the morning. Just sayin.

[Goonch]

18. Goats will eat poison ivy but

not the roots.

[getagrip_already]

20. true, but the roots can be killed with vinegar and salt.....

The problem with chemical killing the plants is you still have to pull down the vines and leaves, which is what can get you. You can't even burn them because the smoke is still allergenic and you don't want that in your lungs.

So use the goats to get rid of the uppers, and then kill the roots in place. Just musing. Goats are problems all by themselves....

[Firestorm49]

14. Put 1 gallon of vinegar, 1 tablespoon of Dawn, and one cup of salt in a sprayer. It works for me.

[Goonch]

19. Kill Weeds With 3 Simple Ingredients

[Scrivener7]

24. So it sounds like the salt/vinegar/soap thing actually does work! I think I'll try that first,

try it for a couple of months, and if it doesn't eradicate it I'll see if I can hire someone to take it away.

THANK YOU ALL! This is really helpful!

LOVE YOU!

[Midnight Writer]

26. The soap makes the solution stick to the leaves, giving it more time to work. Kerosene also works.

[Cracklin Charlie]

25. I found a huge patch last weekend.

Was out weeding, bent over, looked up, and “leaves of three” were 2 inches from my nose.

Called a landscaper Thursday, he’s coming tomorrow. I don’t need that in my life.