RE: poison ivy

If the ground has been watered recently, you can put a plastic bag over
your hand, gently pull out the poison ivy, reverse the bag over the ivy
and tie it.  Doing this shouldn't disrupt the adjoining plants.  My
garden gets a lot of poison ivy, so I try to always keep plastic bags
handy for this purpose.  Note:  The roots of poison ivy are long, so try
to get as much as you possibly can out, so it doesn't resprout.  If you
don't mind using chemicals, you can spray it with roundup rather than
pulling it (this will really protect the adjoining plants)  but I have
had good results pulling the plant so long as I get the roots out.
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From: Peggy Malecki
To: perennials@mallorn.com
Subject: poison ivy
Date: Friday, May 15, 1998 9:51AM

Hi,

Well, I was out weeding and deadheading in a perennial bed last night,
and
I spotted posion ivy poking up through my ground cover. Ack! I have
never
had any posion ivy in my gardens before, and I would like to know what
to
do about it. It is right smack dab in the middle of everything, so I
really
would like to try to save the plants around it. SInce it is still small
(about eight inches tall), I hope it has not started stretching its
rhizomes.

Any suggestions?

Thanks.


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