Permanent Poison Ivy Kill Using Hardwood Ashes

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Permanent Poison Ivy Kill Using Hardwood Ashes - No Pesticides or Digging

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It's not an exciting video. In my experience, and that of everyone I've shared this with, simply spreading hardwood ashes over poison ivy slowly kills the entire plant, roots and all. It does not return.
It takes most of a season, but it's been 100% effective for myself and at least 8 other people.
Cheap, easy, and pesticide free.

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@roytreace7058 2 ай бұрын

What a great idea. I will save my ashes for this instead of throwing them in the garden area.

@carrieskinner3889 Ай бұрын

The thought I have while watching this is that you can make lye with wood ash and water. Lye is very caustic so it's not hard to believe that it would kill vegetation of any kind in the amounts you are putting on it.

@wisconsinwoodslife Ай бұрын

I like that with the wood ash that it doesn't turn the soil into a barren chemical wasteland. Other plants seem perfectly happy with the slow condition change and come up just fine. I've come to think of it as a very slow terraforming operation.

@brucefollett8117 2 ай бұрын

If poison ivy loves acidic soil, try using ground limestone. I don't know that it will work but lime will change the pH in the same way.

@wisconsinwoodslife 2 ай бұрын

You may well be right, I just have ashes on hand for "free". All of this is just based on my personal observations and experience, I don't have enough data to explain it. The pH is the most obvious component I can think would cause the effect. I might grab a small bag of quicklime to test a small patch of thriving poison ivy and report if it works.

@tomschmidt381 2 ай бұрын

Interesting idea. We heat with cordwood (mainly oak and maple) to augment our minisplit. I have been spreading excess ash on the grass. We also use ash with sand on winter ice. We have a pretty good crop of Poison Ivy so will give your idea a try.

@wisconsinwoodslife 2 ай бұрын

I wish I had more data on the mechanism by which it works (soil pH, composition, etc), but my observations over the past decade have been conclusive enough for me. If poison ivy were a cash crop, I'd be able to retire with my land.

@tomschmidt381 2 ай бұрын

@@wisconsinwoodslife Here in NH we say the same thing about rocks, as the most recent glacier stripped off all the top soil so winter frost pop up a new crop every spring. My wife and I grew up in the Chicago area so were used to feet of top soil whereas here in NH we only have a few of inches, then sand down to hardpan. A quick internet search of "poison ivy wood ash" just points to your video.

@wisconsinwoodslife 2 ай бұрын

Completely agree, I tried to do some research before recording this, so as not to put any misinformation and/or well known rehashing of a topic out. I couldn't find anything, but it's worked perfectly for myself and everyone else I've told about it. My in-laws take a five gallon bucket home with them when they visit (sealed with a snap on screw top lid) in a very nice, new vehicle. My FIL is highly allergic to it, and they've eliminated it in their back yard ... but it did take a year. Maybe the speed of action discounts it automatically for a lot of people.

@timothyalanogrady 2 ай бұрын

Good morning new to the channel. I used a fire pit ashes and actually my charcoal ashes from my grills. To help fertilize my grow beds and I actually throw the ashes in my compost heaps as well. Never thought about using them for a weed killer. Thank you for sharing this. We hit the like and to subscribed buttons

@PatricesProjects 2 ай бұрын

Great information.

@malcolm2587 Ай бұрын

I wonder if baking soda would change the soil PH enough to inhibit the poison ivy

@wisconsinwoodslife Ай бұрын

I can't say ... I do like that with wood ash, other plants happily come in to fill the void. We have some Indian Paintbrush in the area I showed treating that never came in before.

@kristyjlk6664 7 күн бұрын

Any update

@user-gl2gp6lp3h 2 ай бұрын

Would wood pellets from a smoker work for this? (Maple, apple, hickory, cherry, oak pellets?) Just curious, great video. Thank you.

@wisconsinwoodslife 2 ай бұрын

As long as the ash is pretty fine, I can't see why it wouldn't. That's a pretty great thought for where to obtain hardwood ash. Don't be stingy with it, a five gallon bucket seems to treat around a 10x10' area.

@motleydigger 2 ай бұрын

I thought this would work. I found your video looking for verification. I was thinking either the ph change or just applying alot might smother it out. How long does it take the ashes to actually decompose? I'm not advising this, but my dad would eat it and he built immunity. It didn't break out inside him or his mouth. He had to do it twice because he got a fish hook in his thumb and they put him on antibiotics. Apparently that canceled out his immunity. He didn't catch it for 20yrs after the first time he ate. Yes he tested it. After 2nd time he never got it again.

@wisconsinwoodslife Ай бұрын

My experience with decomposition is based on very, very handy soil, so keep that in mind. Depending on rainfall, I'd say about 3 weeks. I've heard of the consuming P.I. method of immunity, my aunt was a proponent of eating a young PI leaf every spring. I'm personally unwilling to invite potential disaster to find out.

@motleydigger Ай бұрын

@@wisconsinwoodslifeI know we put some wood ash on our asparagus bed 5-6 years ago and it's still not completely gone. The asparagus is thriving but that's why I was asking about it. Ash doesn't seem to decompose very fast and ash is very very alkaline. Hard to grow most things in that after. It would have to be amended in areas where was used. Didn't you say your soil is more sand? That might make the difference? Ours is loamy very good soil in most places except around where the house was built, its heavy there