Chemist/ toxicologist here, I done these same types of ivy killer comparisons on my property. Unfortunately poison ivy has developed as another superweed. This means it is now highly resistant to most herbicides. The bit of die back shown in this video is soon followed by an even more aggressive resurgence of growth that is even harder to treat. I now put on shoulder high impervious gloves made for handling poison ivy, a polyethylene tyvek suit (garbage bags as shown are a good substitute) plus face shield - I am severely reactive to poison ivy) and then I pull the vines. It’s important to get as much root as possible and pull it out in as long sections as possible. Wait until right after a soaking rain. That holds down oil contaminated dust from getting in your lungs and eyes and makes pulling out the vine roots much much easier. I pulled about 25 lbs of PI vines yesterday in about 1.5 hours and NO RASH. Bag all the vines in doubled plastic trash bags for disposal. Take great care to avoid brushing broken vine ends or the leaves on your protective layer and wash thoroughly with cool water, Dawn soap and a face cloth immediately after pulling vines. This is an annual task on my property now. The birds transfer new seeds from surrounding land after they eat PI berries but I know where it sprouts best now and can usually wipeout new growth fairly quickly. PI is growing more vigorously these days due to a couple of factors. Good luck in your battle with this horrible stuff.

Poison ivy was one of the reasons I bought goats in the first place. That, and goat milk. Poison ivy is their favorite and as a bonus, after a few years of drinking the milk when they were eliminating the ivy, I’m not allergic to it anymore. It took about 3 years of the goats eating a leaf every time it grew to kill the plants, but it’s been a decade & it still hasn’t come back even though they haven’t been in that area since.

One word... GOATS! There are goat herders that you can "rent" their goats and they will stake off your area and let their goats feed on the vines and they eat down to the roots mostly killing the plants.

As you said, DO NOT BURN poison ivy. I had a friend who ended up in the hospital when a neighbor burned poison ivy and the smoke drifted onto her property. As she was elderly, it was kind of touch and go for her survival. Fortunately she pulled through.

I just came across your video. Poison ivy has made me VERY ill in the past. When we discovered it growing in our backyard--not to the extent as your property--I dug up what I could by the roots and then added a bunch of lime. Poison Ivy loves an acidic soil. In the 25 years since, we have had no poison ivy anywhere around the treated soil.

In my experience, (30+ years in my present home) areas sprayed with (take your pick) dies back more quickly if it's in direct sunlight. The hotter it is the faster it works. Obviously, shaded areas will take longer. Secondly, in the hot part of summer when the ground has dried out, if you get a rain shower a day or two after spraying, then sun, it'll die back almost as you watch it. One could also shower an area with a garden hose or sprinkler in the morning and when the sun starts doing its thing, the plant will drink up the water on its leaves, bringing in the poison to kill it. I've witnessed this many times when the spray doesn't look like it's going to work then we get a little rain, the sun comes back out, then by the afternoon it's all going brown. Conversely, in spring time when the ground is still moist, it will take longer to kill the weed as it's getting moisture from the ground. I'm no chemist, botanist or scientist, just a guy trying to kill weeds.

Ive been itchy ever since i watched this

Salt and soap will not kill the vines and the roots, so next year, if the vines aren't killed, it will just sprout again. Don't be deceived.

You have proven to be able to kill poison ivy leaves, but the underground runners are very hardy, I predict the vines will sprout twice as many leaves in a month

Regardless of your choice of spray, add some dye. It won't do anything by itself, but it will show you where you have and haven't sprayed. Farm and feed stores have it economically. A little goes a long way.

if you can find the main vine/base of the plant and cut out about a 6inch section in it…everything above the cut out section will die very quickly and will not grow back. I had a huge growth of poison ivy growing up my chimney of my house and another bunch growing up into a dogwood tree…this method was the easiest way to permanently get rid of it.

The salt and soap idea is so appealing because it's so easy and pretty cheap, but remember -- salt is a mineral and doesn't go away. Put enough of it on the earth and after awhile you won't be able to ever grow anything there again. Tempting for things like poison ivy, but dang.... what if you wanted wild flowers? What if the runoff landed on your tree roots? How long will it take to percolate down and into the water table? Salt.... it's the gift that keeps on giving. We need to think of the long term effects, eh? One more thing: If feels like the little sprayer you were trying to pump my hand was much too little and took way too much effort to get enough of anything onto those plants. For that large a footprint, maybe investing in a nice pump-action air-pressurized sprayer would be beneficial?

I've been dealing with poison ivy and poison oak for several years with no success so last fall I marked where it was so I could find it this spring before the grass and weeds started growing. With long sleeves and gloves I pulled the poison ivy vines, growing on the surface and about 1/4" or less below the surface, straight out of the ground. I did this last month and I haven't found any growing yet so I think I got it all. If I missed any I will mark it and pull it up next spring. One vine did accidently come in contact with my skin and I suffered with blisters for two weeks but I am determined to win the war against this poison.

Eager to hear how it's doing this year! I've only had success with smothering with black plastic for over a year! Spraying has never had a long-term improvement.

Just for people to know, if you consistently mow poison ivy starting the mowing season, it will die out by the end of summer. How we dealt with it when the yard got expanded a bit onto a place with poison ivy. Mow it each week and poof, gone.

I used the BioAdvanced last summer; I got the concentrate you mix in a pump sprayer. You have to give it almost a week before it shows any really noticeable signs. It does work, it completely annihilated everything that was in there. After a week, it looks like it's dying. After 3 weeks, it looks pretty dead. After 6 weeks, it looks like scorched earth. I definitely recommend BioAdvanced.

I had (some) on my property. 10-12 areas along the fence. I used Red Devil concrete cleaner in an aluminum can, cut the stem 12 inches from the ground and stuck it in the can. left it there 2 weeks. it absorbed it into its vascular system killing itself down to the roots including all their offshoots. the rest of the plant was pulled off the fence and discarded. this was 17 years ago and has not returned. I suppose Roundup could be used like this too in limited infestations.

I admire your humor , gives me hope for my ivy farm ,best of luck

Roots found at dig sites that were over 200 y/o still have oils that can cause a reaction. So roots must be dug out to be safe.

I have to use a solvent (mechanics orange soap) within about an hour of exposure. I scrub the area (without breaking the skin) rinse carefully with a cloth to contain the rinsed oil then rub with a dry clean towel. Sometimes repeat. Every single time I have done this I have not gotten a breakout. It's been over 5 years not that this has worked.

Triclopyr 4 I found worked the best on my mountain property. Worked on all the poison plants, wild honeysuckle, forsythia, any woody vibe WITHOUT killing grass. You can buy the concentrate fairly cheap.

A trick i found that works on small areas, mainly full sun - buy some clear chair floor mats if you can, and lay them over top of weeds for at least a day or 2. It causes the sun to cook everything underneath the mat.

Watching this reminds me how lucky I am. I have never been bothered by poison ivy while everyone with me suffered. The house I am in now had what I thought was a couple hundred SF of fancy ground cover behind my garage which I walked around in for a couple years wearing shorts and crocs with no socks. Then my son walked in it once and had both legs covered in a rash. Since learning to identify it I find it all over my property including spiraling up the trunks of trees. I just pull it out when I see it, with bare hands.

I tried the salt/vinegar/soap mix years ago. It clogged in my spray applicator, so I ended up just pouring it on the weeds. They loved it. I think they looked healthier afterwards.

The poison ivy on my property is a couple hundred years old. The vines extend above ground and underground. It takes years to spot spray enough to clear a small section. The plant vine might die in a spot but because the vine extends for hundreds of yards, it does very little. The plant just shuts down that area and the poison spray many times kills other plants around the poison ivy. When the ivy rebounds, it now has less competition and comes back stronger than ever. It takes a ton of work every year to slowly kill the ivy and birds eat the white seeds and replant the it everywhere. Nothing works well against it. Good luck.

Boil vinegar and add salt ....1 part salt/3 parts vinegar..once salts has dissolved add 1 part dish soap and put into a sprayer and go!

I had an aborist pruning trees and he found the 'mother roots' and dug them out and cleared by hand all the trailing plants. Yes, by hand and no protective gear. He said the oils did not affect him.

I have used straight round up with a little paint brush. Straight product and you only need a little bit of covering the same vine and it translocation. Also used a rubber glove and a cloth glove over. You need to protect your sleeves

Hire goats to come to your property and clean out the underbrush.

Dandelions are good for your yard. When they show up, it’s bc your yard needs what they can provide. Once their job is done, they go away. They are also great for us to eat.

I have a wooden fence that had a spot covered in Poison Ivy the vines were pretty big. What I didn't was cut them all off at the ground and sprayed the freshly cut "stumps" with what I had at the time which was RoundUp that was 3 years ago and it hasn't comeback. I have another area that has some and plan do to the same thing with the BioAdvance brush killer. Other Notes: 1) If you think you have the Poison Ivy oil on your skin treat it like grease as if you've been working on a car but you just can't see it. lately I've been using automotive hand cleaner and no rashes. 2) Look into a plant called Jewelweed impatiens Capensis Touch Me Not. it's the ying to Poison Ivy's yang it's also good for bug bits and other rashes.

I realize this won't apply to everyone, but this is what I've found works incredibly well. My father in law tried it as well halfway across the country in a completely different area with 100% success. If you have access to hardwood ashes, simply spread them over the poison ivy areas in a thin (but not sparse) layer before a rain. They can't tolerate the alkalinity pH change and it does kill the roots. Other plants will continue to grow. I've cleared over an acre over time with just this, and it has not returned. It takes a couple of months to start, but it works year after year, and you don't need to pull the runners or roots. Re-treat each area several times over a spring or summer, and you'll see a marked improvement in a few weeks and by the end of a season, it'll be truly dead.

The Brush Killer product works with 1-2 sprayings, in my experience. HOWEVER you are desperately underselling vinegar. We find that salt sprays linger in the soil for months but vinegar is neutralized within a week or two, in practice. We buy concentrated vinegar (usually 75%, but sometimes 40% is cheaper even factoring in dilution) and dilute it to 30-40% strength, then spot-spray it with a cheap sprayer (because, like salt, it usually ruins them eventually). DO NOT get it in your eyes or nose or on your hands. 30-40% vinegar will start wilting poison ivy leaves in under an hour. Yes, the roots may survive, but when it pops up, hit it again. Roots aren't magic -- the plant only has so much biological resource underground. The vinegar spray also works on Virginia creeper, if you're too allergic to pull that up. But it will corrode things like metal fences, etc, so be careful.

With so much poison ivy, goats might be an easier treatment and no poisons are needed. They’re very thorough! CAS NC

You can beat poison ivy. I have done it on a couple of farms. First, I use a 4% solution of Crossbow. It is much more effective than Roundup on Viny plants. Apply when warm, but not above 85 degrees with Crossbow, no rain for a couple of days. Be sure to add surfactant to the mix. Afterwards, apply again regularly until the noxious weed is dead. You just have to be persistent. It might take a couple of years of spraying but, it can be done. TIP: If you have large vines of Poison Ivy climbing up your trees, cut out a wedge about half way through the vine. Apply full strength Crossbow or Roundup on the wound you have created. Do that every few days. The Poison Ivy will die and this method will have the added bonus of killing the roots as well.

FYI when you spray your poison ivy make sure it's going to be sunny for a couple of days for the ivy to absorb the poison into its system otherwise the rain will probably wash it off.😁

Excellent video, thanks for documenting the work. You are lucky to have a great production director. I have also fought poison ivy, buckthorn, and thistles in my woods and fields, and the struggle is real! I have a couple notes from experience to add. Perhaps others may have already said similar, but I didn't read all the comments... 1. MOST IMPORTANT FOR POISON IVY: Add extra surfactant (Dawn detergent or better yet, surfactants specifically designed for herbicides) to get weed killers to adhere better to poison ivy leaves. Many water-based weed killers will just roll off poison ivy leaves due to the oil in the leaves. This may also be related to the remarks that poison ivy has developed characteristics to survive weed killers,. Surfactants are designed to allow better interactions of water-based solutions with oily materials, which would then allow the active ingredients in the weed killer to penetrate leaves of poison ivy and absorb into the roots. 2. You and some of the commentators made a good observation that is relevant. Rain or watering a couple days after application also helps absorb the weed killer more completely into the plants. I've applied weed killers and saw very little evidence that it was working until the rains came. 3. Using salt and vinegar mixtures may be effective, but there are long-term effects to consider. Salt and vinegar may stay in the soil for long periods of time, and may prevent growth of plants in the spots that were treated. They may eventually get diluted enough to allow things to grow again, considering salts are used on roads during the winter to melt ice, But if you try to grow less hardy or finicky plants, flowers, or vegetables, you may have an extremely difficult time growing them in areas that salt and vinegar were previously applied. Vinegar, which is a solution of acetic acid, will acidify the soil, and subsequent plants that require a neutral or higher pH soil may not grow well, if at all. 4. Roundup (or glycophosate) kills poison ivy, especially when you add extra surfactant. Due to the health concerns of this product and possibly any herbicide, it is best to use a respirator, rubber gloves, and protective clothing to be safe. 5. My best concoction is to combine two weed killers for the very most stubborn weeds or invasive plant species. Crossbow herbicide and either Ortho Ground Clear (or Roundup/glycophosate) at their recommended concentrations with extra surfactant will kill poison ivy, thistles, and most other weeds. Do not use it on the lawn because it will also kill the grass. As an additional bonus, Crossbow herbicide at 25-40% concentration will kill buckthorn, but may not kill buckthorn at lower concentrations. Crossbow is the most effective herbicide I've found to kill buckthorn so far.

I have a friend who is an expert gardener, and she says the best thing is to go out in spring when the new plants are small and pull them out by the roots when the soil is wet and slippery. This gets rid of plants that started from birds dropping the seeds. (She's not affected by PI.)

Bonide has worked well for me - kills the root - I do use it for spot killing (if I don't feel like trying to pull it out...). Goats (if you have any in the neighborhood...) are the best to do an initial clearing, but will still need to spot attack for a couple seasons. I use a vinegar and dish soap mix to remove general weeds from pavers, gutters, etc. - works like a champ!

Use a 20% vinegar (you'll have to get a concentrated solution, usually comes at 45%) with salt and a little dish soap. You won't use enough vinegar to significantly change the pH of the soil. It won't kill the roots, but does a good job of killing the leaves. Once you kill the leaves (it may require a few treatments, cut the area down to the ground, and keep it cut for the rest of the season. Some will come back as you don't kill the roots. The same problem exists with trying to pull it out. Another option is to apply the vinegar solution once, then follow with the Bioadvanced. The vinegar weakens the plant, so the herbicide may be more effective.

If you touch poison Ivy, it is important to remove the oil ASAP. With dish detergent and a wet warm wash cloth use mechanical elbow grease. If you do a good job scrubbing off all the ivy oil you should avoid an outbreak. Pay special attention to between fingers and toes. Many do not know this, not knowing that the poison ivy oil is still on their skin, boots, socks, pants etc. and to remove it right away. Hope I saved some of you the pain. There are videos on you tube on this.

I've used a Bonide weed killer and the WeedClear, both without success. The poison ivy and other weeds wilt to varying degrees, but the plants don't appear to die away. I now have the Brush Killer and am going to try it.

When say use something safe, I'm not sure if you are meaning safe for humans to use without risk of health problems or also safe for wildlife/bugs. Just a tip on the Bonide, the products with the purple corner are synthetically derived. The products with the beige corner are organically derived. If anyone is trying to grow organically, avoid the labels with the purple corner. But Bonide generally has a good product that is safe to use when you use skin and eye/nose protection.

Vinegar, salt, and soap just killed the leaves for me. I tried the vinegar, salt, and soap last year; it killed a bunch of leaves and eventually regrew back from the vines. The BioAdvanced brush killer is suppose to take up to 6 weeks to kill the plant at the root, so the leaves shouldn't come back. It also takes longer to work in the shade. It looks to be working well so far! We'll see if it comes back next year. I'm guessing if I missed any, I'll see some resurgence, but it won't be from the same vine. I also pulled some up then laid cardboard over where I pulled it up with a small amount of dirt on top, in case I missed some roots or something. That worked really well.

After watching this and reading comments, I will be covering mine PI with cardboard and mulch tomorrow. That's def the safest way to get rid of it.

very informative, I just ran into poison ivy while weeding my flower bed, I was looking for something I could use with out killing delicate flowers and plants, you gave me a lot of info to start my decision making on this problem! Thanks

Very helpful video, thank you!! I put 30% vinegar into the homemade solution. I see wilting the same day. Stay upwind as the high potency vinegar is pretty acidic, so don't inhale the vapor.

some ppl say it will grow back unless you pull the roots out. I dont know personally,I havent done it yet. But nothing else Ive tried has worked.

Thanks for doing this experiment. The information is very useful. I am allergic to this hateful plant, but I also work IN it most days outta the year, cutting grass and clearing land. This ain't NOTHING! Please mow that shit down! Even with a weed whacker! You'll be just fine. That entrance there, you could whack down in 5 minutes. BUT here's the trick to not getting poison ivy, oak, sumac whatever... Surgeon was your hands, THEN shower, and wash 3 to 5 times. Good luck to you.

Immediate upvote at 4:45 for the fashion pants.

Did you know that poison oak (sister species, pretty much identical, west coast) is on the MANDATORY restoration list for Caltrans (Highway dept.) Why? Poison Ivy & Oak are sisters of Cashew. EXTREMELY IMPORTANT for native birds diet. Poison Ivy Honey is silvery, absolutely delicious and gets a premium price. Why? because it confers immunity.

I really enjoyed the production value of this video. Thanks for the info!

the triclopyr in the brush killer will definitely damage trees, although its probably got a pretty low rate in it. I have heard salt stays in the soil forever and can eventually prevent anything from growing, I don't know how true that is.

I can tell you Roundup works better than all of these. I also have an old bottle of brush killer that I think was made by Sevin. I guess its pretty dangerous (like agent orange) because it kills everything in its path. LOL

Even if it dies on top of the ground, the oil will still be in the roots and will be just as dangerous. Just an FYI.

My husband gets it everytime he mows or weed eats. I literally went out there with regular garden gloves And pulled the vines out by hand, dug up the deep ones with a shovel. I can honestly say they definitely touched my arms and legs. But no rash. I learned years ago some people are more suseptible than others. My husband is a PI magnet. I've never ever gotten it. And he uses a riding mower...how he gets it I don't understand.

What if you laid a thick layer of cardboard or tarps/landscape fabric over it? I would try several layers of cardboard if I could get it. Then spot spray if necessary. It would be hard to grow thru 2-3 layers of cardboard, and then the cardboard decomposes into compost.😃

You know what else works? Cardboard.

You are Mark Mansons doppelganger!!!!! (Motivational speaker/author on YT) That's crazy! Same hair, sense of humor, facial features. It's crazy!

Using fine Epsom salt and 45% vinegar is supposed do better job as a salt treatment.

For more potent white vinegar, buy the 30% gallons at Home Depot. It's also called horticultural vinegar. Grocery store vinegar is 6-8%. 30% is strong stuff, so keep it away from your face. As other commenters have pointed out, it doesn't kill the roots.

The problem with poison ivy is the stems and roots hold the oils, even when the foliage dies.

Blake give this one a try, as it has worked very well for me, when a lot of others have failed. The important thing is the active chemical & how it's mixed (concentrate). Find "Diquat dibromide 2.3% along with Fluazifop-p-butyl 1.15%" mixture. Mix 7 oz per gallon of water. The manufacturer isn't important, but the one I use is Spectracide Weed & Grass Killer. This is a non-selective weed killer. Even a light mist carried by the wind will kill any green plant foliage it hits. For $15 or so, it's worth a try. Good luck.

Back about 40 years ago, I was digging artifacts at a site and began to get some itchy spots on my face. When I got home I took a shower and in the morning my face looked like that of a burn victim. I told my wife to keep the kids from seeing me. The doctor gave me everything he could, the last was some super powerful antibiotic as I recall. He told me if that didn't do it there was nothing that could be done. That turned it around and weeks later I made a full recovery. Also, after I healed the doctor warned me about inhaling the smoke from burning poison ivy. He said you can get an internal infection. Also he told me not to eat cashew nuts as they're from the same family. If one tends toward reactions to poison ivy, poison oak, and poison sumac, one is playing with death when eating cashew nuts.

Thanks for this. I have fences with vines separating my yard with my neighbors. It looks nice but is full of poise ivy which I get every time I brush against it mowing. Hoping to kill the poison ivy and not everything else. May try the salt first. Really like your videos

The salt residue out last the effects of vinegar. We use horticultural vinegar. And there are no lasting effects after a couple rains.

I have 42 acres of forest and clearings. Much of it is covered with poison ivy and kudzu. It doesn't bother me and I pick it by hand but it makes the power utility people go crazy when they see it. I decided this year to start spraying. My first treatment was a month ago with Roundup (3x the suggested concentration) and this weekend I am following that up with 2-4-D amine. I have had good dieback with the Roundup but some of the ivy is very resistant (the stuff covering my house). Odd, I am mostly immune to poison ivy and oak but lawn grass sap will make me break out in hives.

I react to poison ivy easily, but as long as im wearing long sleaves and gloves ive never had a problem from mowing poison ivy. Mowing blades arnt blending leaves to a slurry either, but thats a good way to kill poison ivy, bag your grass clippings and dump them on the poison ivy.

I am extremely sensitive to poison ivy. Last Year l had a severe case that lasted three weeks. It didn't start to get better until l went to the doctor and got cortisone. My right arm and hand were covered with huge blisters. I looked like l had a plague. I have three neighbors that adjoin my yard and the do nothing to eliminate it from their yards and it keeps invading mine.

FYI vinegar at these rates is not going to change your soil pH.

Over the counter 'box store' products rarely work. You need the stuff farmers use. Go to a farm supply place & ask for Carmax, I don't think you can get that actual product anymore, but they have a replacement. And it works.

I have found that Crossbow (@ >/= 4% ? Would have to check product leaflet to be sure) + dish soap works on our poison ivy in typically only one application and good weather.

Recommend you gently (with gloves!) pull along the ivy to find the major root (if you rip it up you will break it) .. the root keeps spreading right at ground level. Yeah, i bought a paper type hazmat suit pretty cheap on Amazon because I am really sensitive to that mess. I sprayed with some stuff last year that came highly recommended and it all seemed to die off .. back this year 😢

I use vinegar and salt. The rubber gaskets on the sprayers are destroyed. Is there a sprayer that can handle vinegar?

Triclopyr is awesome. Crossbow with 16.5% triclopyr absolutely nuked my creeping charlie, which is an ivy. It hurt several other weeds as well which is a bonus. Newly seeded grass was not harmed and sprouted through. Is been about 4 days since I applied and the ivy is all ashed and getting blown away by the wind. Just get a 2 gallon sprayer and dump 4 oz of crossbow in it and some dawn dish soap to help it stick. This will produce a 1% triclopyr solution and should cover 5000ish square feet. Should turn milky white and you need to shake it to keep it mixed. I use 45% vinegar and salt with dish soap to spray in areas where growth is not desired. Never salt an area unless you are darn sure you want nothing growing there.

I WILL TRY THE SOAP AND SALT, MY NEIGHBORS POISON IVY IS GROWING OVER AND THROUGH MY PRIVACY FENCE, THEY WON'T TAKE CARE OF IT, I WILL! THANKS SO MUCH FOR THIS INFORMATIVE TESTING EXPERIMENT. PERSONALLY I'D NEVER USE CHEMICALS.

Maybe a little pricey ($80-90 gallon), but CROSSBOW is the best I've found so far.

Becareful of the hairy vines, that is poison ivy.

Still, I wish you tried, water, soap, salt and vinegar for comparison.

Nice video! Appreciate your comparison tactics….tho using a product stored for 12 years in a shed subjected to hot/cold is questionable. 🤣. Gosh, they all looked pretty ineffective….or….disappointing. Please, when you spray chemicals - wear gloves on that spray hand. Best of luck getting ahead of these monsters. 👍🏻

Thank you for this. I have some rather large growths of poison ivy in my yard and didn't know how to deal with it. I'll be picking up Brush Killer today.

My dad was a train engineer for many yrs. He would bring home diesel from the trains and used that on this stuff still it lived. Ive read you have to kill the roots. Dig down to the main root and dig it up. I also found companies who would come out to your house and do this to kill the stuff

Vinegar only changes the pH for a few hours. I use it as a temporary pH down in hydroponics.

My problem is I help poison ivy growing on the side of my house on the brick itself. Plus it's whining around my air conditioner and a small garden box😢 I called a professional so they can treat a and they'll remove it for an extra cost, because the oil that causes the rashes active for up to a year after the leaves have died. Please remember that if you end up going around it or you decide you want to pull it up yourself.

Common cooking vinegar has 5% acidity, but some of the big-box hardware-store replacements might carry 30% vinegar, which works much better sprayed on some cursed-leaves. But if PI loves an acidic soil, this might mot be helpful, on second thought. Back to the beakers and test tubes. (Harumph.)

Deer work about as well as goats. Our neighborhood deer herd has removed all the poison ivy, English ivy, and most of the other ground growing plants. The only problem is how to get them to not eat the plants that you really want to keep.

Great video. Thank you for sharing your experience with us. I’ve been dealing with it for years here and what I’ve noticed that has helped the best is bleach. I’ve sprayed bleach on it as well as watering the roots with it and it works the best for me. I’ve been able to keep it under control doing that thru out the years. We had a lot of it on our property in the past and now I’m down to a few popping up and I spray and water it immediately. It dies off and it helps to kill the roots underground from spreading further. This is just my opinion that I thought I would share with you. Thank you again and take care✌️

I get right on poison ivy as soon as I see it. I pull the runners. One man said pull a runner up, cut the end and stick it into a jar of roundup, covered with plastic cling wrap. This should cause the vine to draw in the round up without destroying the land.

I've found 2 4 D to be effective.Doesnt harm grass.

That is why i use Roundup

I've found the triclopyr as the most useful to kill poison ivy, briars and sweet gum trees. Glyphosate may need to be sprayed twice on poison ivy if it resprouts from below, so... Also, the triclopyr is not so hard on the grasses if you want to avoid killing them. Don't get it near Privet bush roots though. Great chemical.

Would throwing tarps over them, or mulch, kill them off? I have seen my neighbors do that on their laws before they laid sod down on top.

Dude, how are you doing? Still waiting? Healing slowly? Your personality shines through in your videos, your love. I wish you well Sir, hope to see a healthy, shining you. Peace Dammit!

The dry leaves still have urushiol oil in them, so, yeah. Nasty stuff. I used to get poison ivy reactions a lot as a kid despite avoid it like the plague when I recognized it. Finally figured out I was getting it from playing in piles of leaves that I didn't even realized contained dry poison ivy leaves.

Luckily I'm not allergic to poison ivy, so I just yard it out of the ground when the ground is soft (usually after a rain, so I get plenty muddy) and then I pile it up on a piece of sheet metal to dry out in the sun. Once it's crispy dry I compost it. Only 1 in 10 people is allergic to poison ivy, and one of them is my husband, so I have to shower and wash my constant companion Beagle, Frank, so we don't get poison ivy on the hubby.

Not a popular opinion I’m sure, but Round Up kills the root. Used it for treatment on a huge swatch last fall. It did not come back this spring, except the stuff at the rear I barely got due to distance. I’d like to see how this looks next year. I suppose that means I will subscribe :)

If you want to get rid of that stuff without a ton of chemicals or salt, Do it in the spring. Put on a rubber suit and rubber gloves and when the ground is soft, you go in and pull the stuff right out along with its long interconnected roots. The stuff is insidious and you have to keep at it.

Mid manitoba..if it's not grass, then it's definitely poisen ivy! Ridiculous how it grows.. urisherol the oil from poisen ivy can stay on boots mower parts rakes ect for up to 5 years. I for one an severely affected by it..lol

Steve Busch again: Incidentally, I finally figured out why I was always getting a rash on the inside of my arms after weed whacking areas with poison oak. When I was putting on or taking off my shoes...MY ARMS WERE BRUSHING AGAINST THE BOTTOM OF MY PANT LEGS (in the calf area)...which of course was covered in poison oak residue!!!

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