I found this around the side of my house where I don't go often. Any ideas appreciated!
by morninggloryatx
I found this around the side of my house where I don't go often. Any ideas appreciated!
by morninggloryatx
17 Comments
That does look like poison ivy
Poison af!
You can tell because poison ivy in Texas because it ends in a triplet, reddish stem, often with the jagged edges you see on this one.
Oh dear. I’ve never had to deal with it! Do I just cut it down at the base? (Gloved, of course!)
Looks like poison ivy to me.
Kill it immediately!
I see a lot of people giving you advice on how to kill this. I wouldn’t recommend just using nitrile gloves. I may be particularly sensitive, but when you damage these plants I find that they can aerosolize their oils, so it can get on you even if you never touched it directly.
The only method that I’ve managed to use without getting my ass handed to me is to gently brush-apply a serious herbicide (like something glyphosate-based) to the surfaces of the leaves. It may take a couple applications, but eventually the entire plant dies, and you can restrict the spread of the herbicide.
Carefully, with gloves, clip off most of the plant. Leave enough towards the roots where you can still work on it. Dispose of the bushy clipping first. Now, tackle the root base either with a herbicide or carefully with tools dig up the roots and get it out of the ground. Wear long sleeves and don’t touch anything with the gloves. Check back in the later part of the summer for any of it sprouting again.
You may not be comfortable using chemicals on these plants, but they’re using chemicals on you.
For this reason, I feel justified in returning the gesture with poisonous vines.
Have you considered a mixture of
Vinegar , Salt, and Dawn detergent? (There are lots of recipes all over the web.) This combo should kill the leaves but the vines will remain until to use it multiple times, resulting in scorched earth patches where little will grow.
Another option is to hire someone who’s not allergic (like me, and many others) to dig up all the vines solving tye issue for good. This is worth doing around your home.
We have a wooded acre lot, poison ivy comes and goes. When/if found, I’ll usually mark it with a flag, hit it with crossbow herbicide, watch it die, let get crispy in the summer heat, and then eventually hit it with the mower. Fin.
It’s not that hard to get rid of. Just try to pull as much of the root as possible. It took me 2 seasons to get it all.
Just pull it up, and wash your hands and arms very well when you are done. When I have some to kill around the yard I do it all at once. I make sure to wear flip-flops that can easily be cleaned and throw all of my clothes in the wash on the hotest cycle when im done. Ive made the mistake of getting it on my shoes before and having to throw them away cause they kept making me breakout 💀.
100% poison ivy.
Yes! Poison ivy, although people think it’s awful it’s actually great for birds. This is actually an interesting morphology that mimics Box elder trees. This is a phenology from the Midwest
Leaves of three let it be!
Itchy mittens.
Agree with poison ivy.
Urushiol in the oil will stick around for years after. Be sure to wash everything well after handling and avoid that spot in the yard. I don’t have a reaction but have carried it over to my wife even after scrubbing in the shower, after using what I thought were thorough measures.