Re: [NAFEX] Poison Ivy Ideas

[Sam Franc <franc@oregonfast.net>]

I don't like the salt idea.
It is more harmful to the environment that the 2-4-D or Roundup by far.
That is why the highway depts have stopped using salt on the roads anymore.
They found it was harming the environment.
Sam

Gianni's mail wrote:

> Subject: [NAFEX] Poison Ivy Ideas......
>
> I have used with great success water ionizer salt tablets to completely
> eradicate
> PO & PI & P Sumac.....
> For Ivy I use a bagger type lawnmower and in the fall & spring lower the wheels
> to their lowest
> setting and have at it. This is after I have raked with a ground rake to try to
> expose the undergrowth vines.
> The vines get uprooted and dislodged and the poison oil stays in the bag when
> cutting.
> Then I broadcast rock or ionizer salt if I don't think the infestation is that
> heavy, but where there may still be parent roots, I apply in heavy doses,
> usually a pile right over the suspect area.
> I then wet it down and let the rain do the rest, periodically you may need to
> replenish the salt
> depending on how effectively or stubborn the target plant/s are but usually
> within a season, where there
> may have been a very stubborn and sturdy main root, the next season is either
> mush or a root  in the
> rotting down stage.
> The entire area remains barren until the salt has dissolved and usually lasts
> for a season.
> Do not use this in direct proximity to specimen or valuable stocks because
> erosion will also kill anything in the salt's path.
> I did use pressure treated lumber to re-direct erosion near valuable trees and
> it worked, but I buried the PT
> leaving an inch above grade. This was 5-1/4" wide PTL.
> Salt is present in most soil in smaller amounts and is used to pull iron from
> heavy water tables and then flushed into the septic,  eventually finding it's
> way back to the undergound water .....
> A 40 lb bag of ionizer salt is 4 or 5 bucks.
> I dump a half bag on a 30" large tree stump and within a year you have mush or
> rot or the decaying process has been sped quite nicely.....
>
> Greg, Larry, Lon, & Tom
> "Great job guy's switching us over!" Absolutely painless! Lon is a happy camper
> now!!!
>
> Donna in TN, what about P.Trifoliata and the dwarfing with the briar/spikes
> pointing downward, I think.
>
> This weird weather still has peach flowers still on, I have never seen them hang
> on this long it's been over 2 weeks???? Even rootstocks are hanging on longer,
> what the hey?
>
> Best to all!
> ~Gianni
> S.NH-Z-5/6
>
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