About a week after the rain stopped we noticed that poison ivy was growing on our backyard fence. We had to get rid of it because the entire plant can cause an itchy rash.
My husband said he would pull out the entire plant from its roots and dispose of it in a trash bag. This method will work but you may have to do it a few times.
Before you begin you
should put on protected glasses and cover your nose and mouth with a mask. You will also wear long sleeve shirt and garden
gloves. Be sure to wear pants and garden boots. Best to not have any skin exposed to protect
you from getting this toxic ivy oil on your skin and causing a rash.
Dispose of the poison ivy in a trash bag. Don’t put in your compost because even dried
poison ivy can cause you to get a rash and you don’t want to burn it either
because it can cause lung irritation.
After pulling the poison ivy out by the roots it would be good to treat the area with a herbicide such as Ortho MAX Poison Ivy & Tough Brush Killer.
By treating the soil with an herbicide you will be preventing
future growth.
