Anyone with success tips in controlling poison ivy?

Thinking about my super immune system - never got Poison Ivy as a kid, even though I rubbed it on me, showing off like a kid. Any others ( sorry for Hijack!!)

I will join you in asking your question. It has started to run rampant on my property and I would like to know how to eliminate it once and for all without ruining my plants.

Spray it. I can't remember what we use. My husband would know or you can check with a garden store as to what to use.

I have discovered that information on this is sketchy.

Even the Round up labels are confusing!

I've looked at a couple of websites and they are even MORE confusing.

What has happened here is that the city tore up the city side of the road doing all that water main repair, and repaving. They dug up 36in + along that curb. Some of my plants which I thought were goners, have come back with vigor. Example....
Globe Thistles! really were stimulated --I guess the roots.

This is what happened with the poison Ivy... I don't recall seeing any where it is now. I really cannot plant my seedlings that I planned for there...because this just came up. We have had a slow cool spring, and I didn't see the ivy right away. Now it is rampant over there! I sprayed it with Round Up, but it is not responding quickly yet.

Just noticed this thread and am on my way to bed so I'll have to guess at the name of the spray that's in my barn..that works and is specifically for poison oak and ivy. I thinks it's Bodine...or something like that. Am in my jamies or I'd go unlock the barn and look. Promise to do that in the morning for sure! goodnite...

http://www.bonide.com/lbonide/backlabels/l330.pdf not Bodine but bonide.

now I'm really going to bed.

I don't get it either. Never once even when the rest of the gang, running right through the same patch with me, suffered something fierce from it.

LOL....

I used Round up for poison ivy, pre mixed. Round up has several kinds of sprays, so it helped me that Anderson's had a chart of weeds to show which type of RU I needed.

It'll kill small trees so be careful. It cost about $30 - totally worth it. Note that it takes a couple weeks, the label says, to kill. I noticed the plants starting to shrivel in about 5-7 days, and some needed more than one spray. Still, it's the only thing I've found that really does it.

I have lots of *wild mulberry* trees that pop up - you just can't kill them any other way.

I was careful, spraying right next to other plants on a calm day and have not killed any good plants. The spray nozzle is really accurate.

I used a general RU weed killer for easier to kill weeds and that worked well for choke weed and such. Again, didn't kill anything but what I wanted to kill.

I never used a weed killer till last year, so this is new to me but I was impressed.

Okay...so the Round up may work? I used the blue label one.
I am not familiar with poisons....I don't use them at all. But with poison ivy you have to.

The poison ivy killer by RoundUp said if you want to plant in 2wks time, use the blue label one instead. I guess the poison ivy specific killer leaves residue. So that is what I did...only not much is happening. I used the squirt setting...and it targeted just where it needed to go.

I shall wait the week. Now some animal found my seedling trays in my yard and is digging each cell out! GRRRRRRRRR chipmunks!

The RU I used came in a one gallon(?) jug that's white with a yellow/gold label and spray nozzle. Says *Poison Ivy and Brush killer*.

I didn't read through the whole label - that could take forever and a jeweler's loupe - but I didn't see anything about being able to plant again in 2 weeks. I think this may be strong than that.

But I only sprayed the leaves and nothing on the ground around the plants died. My gardens are elbow to elbow plants. I just shot at the leaves I could hit and it still killed off what I wanted.


Except the mint bed. I mass sprayed the ivy and elephant ears 2-3 times (I mean I hosed that stuff) so far, and they're about dead. The mint is growing back over the dead stuff though. Mint is like that.



I'm like you, never did poison, just manually weeded. I am just too busy to do it this year and the place needs to be decent - I'm gonna sell it. So far so good.

Good luck.

The Ivy is starting to look sick. I'll take a pic of it later when I go down there.

I had a little surprise too... the other part of the city garden directly across from us ---I had sprinkled some black eyed susan seeds there to see if they would take ---it is soooodry there...and I found them yesterday! tiny yet but doing okay!
I expected a failure there. So once established from my flats with the other seedlings...I think they WILL naturalize themselves.
(one never knows you know )

Having terrible chipmunk problems. I now have to put rocks around anything I plant...they dig them right up! And some are coming now into my seed flats as well...right up on the bench and digging around. I found several emptied! There is no food there. They did it right after I fertilized ..so maybe the fertilizer has a odor for them? The construction across the street along the river --the guys say when they turn on the machines chipmunks come streaming out of the hill --river bank. These must be them? ugh ugh!