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Re: Poison Ivy

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We have those too- they are awful to step on when you're running barefoot
thru the grass.Good tip about the boiling water-Teri
----- Original Message -----
From: Kragen Sitaker <kragen@pobox.com>
To: <sqft@listbot.com>
Sent: Monday, April 10, 2000 5:12 PM
Subject: Re: Poison Ivy


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> My favorite broad-spectrum organic herbicide is boiling water.  Be very
> careful, though; it's a lot more dangerous than Roundup, although it
> becomes harmless much more quickly once it gets on the ground.  It's
> also pretty cheap.
>
> I use a teakettle.  Last year, when I was fighting the poison ivy, I
> used a two-gallon pot, which was probably a bad idea --- hard to
> control, slow to heat up, and likely to slosh.
>
> Boiling water also kills seeds, which Roundup doesn't, if I remember
> correctly.  This can be an advantage or a disadvantage, depending on
> what seeds are present where you're pouring it.
>
> I recently got two very nasty plants in my lawn; dark green things with
> white spines all over them, more painful to the merest touch than any
> cactus, although the pain is more fleeting.  They rather resemble
> thistles or dandelions, but they don't grow upward --- they hug the
> ground and crowd out the grass, even more than dandelions do.
>
> (Are these nettles?  They seem to be very popular on my block this
> year, and I've never seen one before.)
>
> A pint or so of boiling water on each one (I found them on different
> days), which took about a minute to slowly pour on, immediately turned
> them into steamed vegetables, no longer painful to the touch.  The
> smaller one has about a four-inch-radius circle of dead grass around it
> now; the grass around the larger one hasn't died yet.
>
> Several days later, I keep looking at them every day --- I'm afraid the
> accursed things will spring back up.
>
> --
> <kragen@pobox.com>       Kragen Sitaker
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>
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