Pet safe poison ivy killer
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Anonymous
| I'd like to get rid of some poison ivy in my back yard, but we send our dog to play out there. Is there anything safe I can apply to poison ivy that won't make the dog sick, should she come into contact with it? Thanks. (cross-posting to the Pets forum) |
Anonymous
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wait, you let your dog play in the poison ivy, and then you let him back in the house. thats nuts...
me id just use roundup until the leaves died off and then Id use loppers to cut the remaining woody material. being careful not to touch any sap Ie wear gloves and bag. once that happens the PI might try to sprout and leaf out again where you cut it. but you can continue with the roundup apps. or take a shovel and dig up the roots. |
Anonymous
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Vinegar on foliage, pref horticulture vinegat at 10%.
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Anonymous
| With poison ivy you bring out the big guns. This is what roundup should be used for. Take your dog on a walk until it’s safe to use the yard again. |
Anonymous
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Most weed killers have instructions to keep pets off until dry. We just treated our yard but I can’t recall the brand - Ortho maybe?
Dogs aren’t usually affected by poison ivy because of their fur and the thickness of their paw pads. They’d have to vigorously rub and roll in it to bring the oils back to you when you pet them. My dog runs through wooded areas with PI on our property all the time and even though we sleep together, she’s never transferred it to me - but she’s not rolling or rubbing her fur in the ivy, she’s just stepping through it. |
Anonymous
| Is boiling water effective? I thought it was for kudzu, so maybe same for poison ivy? |
Anonymous
| Round up is your friend. |
Anonymous
Yes. But once it is dead, you have to dig up the roots to keep it from coming back the following year |
Anonymous
Wtf, no. How much poison ivy? Can you pull it up? That's the best way to get to of it. |
Anonymous
Poison ivy is literally the plant on which even hard core natural people agree with round up’s use. Sometimes it just gets too big, and frankly, I’d want to kill the plants even if I could cut it back (while wearing long sleeves and long pants, a face mask and shield, gloves and then treating all of the implements I’d used with rubbing alcohol to clean off the urushiol). Boiling water does not work, people. https://www.nytimes.com/2021/05/12/realestate/poison-ivy.html?searchResultPosition=1 |
Anonymous
Pulling it out there is one approach - make sure to be completely protected as the roots also have the urushoil in them, something many folks fail to realize. Here’s good info on protection from urushoil: https://www.cdc.gov/niosh/topics/plants/exposure.html |
Anonymous
| NP-Can i ask how to dispose of it? In with the regular yard waste or bagged separate? (in fairfax if that helps) |
Anonymous
| Not in yard waste. Put it in black trash bags and discard with the regular trash. Our trash crews won’t pick up any plant material if they can see it so I always bag poison ivy and diseased plants in the heavy-duty black bags. |
Anonymous
You do you. I’m am severely allergic to poison ivy and I’m not risking a trip to the ER. |
Anonymous
| Kerosene or diesel fuel is great for killing poison ivy, and it’s actually relatively safe for pets (because they stay away from it while it’s wet). |