➡I accidentally bought Balut eggs: 2 live ducks! Now a Chat Thread!

[NanaKat]

Is thiis poison ivy?
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YES!!!

 

[ShrekDawg]

YES!!!

Whoops.... I was about to say it didn’t look like it to me.. ignore me

I would probably walk right up to it and get poison ivy.

It kinda looks like our raspberry plants but they have thorns lol and the leaves are pointier.

I thought pi was pointier and shinier?

Clearly I know nothing.

 

[ShrekDawg]

Funny thing is we have TONS of PI around here but I still don’t know what it looks like.

 

[Kiki]

YES!!!

I knew it! Thanks.

I've been telling the Mex that that is what makes him itch...when he trims this particular bush.

 

[Kiki]

I don't know how to get rid of it. It looks like it's growing out of the stem or root of this bush that we have.

 

[NanaKat]

@Texas Kiki Kiki whatever touches that can pick up the oil and transfer it. Wear disposable gloves if you handle it. Put it in a bag for the trash. Wash your exposed skin and your clothes, gloves, etc.
Pets and free ranging chickens that run thru it can transfer the oil to people who pet them.
I'm very sensitive to poison ivy. Even dry leaves and stems have the oil. Inhaling the smoke from burning it can be dangerous too.
Brush killer strength weed killers will knock it down.

 

[ShrekDawg]

I knew it! Thanks.

I've been telling the Mex that that is what makes him itch...when he trims this particular bush.

Make sure he washes his hands really well after. I think I read something that said you have to wash it within like 10 minutes to be able to get all the oil off then it starts dropping, like 90, 80, etc.

I don't know how to get rid of it. It looks like it's growing out of the stem or root of this bush that we have.

Can you take the bush out? Maybe wear gloves and get snippers and snip the vines off?

@Texas Kiki Kiki whatever touches that can pick up the oil and transfer it. Wear disposable gloves if you handle it. Put it in a bag for the trash. Wash your exposed skin and your clothes, gloves, etc.
Pets and free ranging chickens that run thru it can transfer the oil to people who pet them.
I'm very sensitive to poison ivy. Even dry leaves and stems have the oil. Inhaling the smoke from burning it can be dangerous too.
Brush killer strength weed killers will knock it down.

All good points. I know I’ve gotten it from touching the dogs before. And I knew someone who once got it in his lungs and nose/throat and everything from breathing in the smoke so definitely be careful with that!

I hate weed killers normally but it seems to be the only totally effective thing with poison ivy.

That or goats.

Goats usually love eating the stuff haha

 

[debid]

@Texas Kiki Kiki whatever touches that can pick up the oil and transfer it. Wear disposable gloves if you handle it. Put it in a bag for the trash. Wash your exposed skin and your clothes, gloves, etc.
Pets and free ranging chickens that run thru it can transfer the oil to people who pet them.
I'm very sensitive to poison ivy. Even dry leaves and stems have the oil. Inhaling the smoke from burning it can be dangerous too.
Brush killer strength weed killers will knock it down.

All of this. And be prepared because killing that bit you can see doesn't eliminate the underground network of roots. It's absolutely everywhere here and I keep the weed killer handy to spray it whenever I see it but then I'll find it again. And again. Sometimes it just sprouts up in the middle of the lawn. Evil weed.

 

[ShrekDawg]

All of this. And be prepared because killing that bit you can see doesn't eliminate the underground network of roots. It's absolutely everywhere here and I keep the weed killer handy to spray it whenever I see it but then I'll find it again. And again. Sometimes it just sprouts up in the middle of the lawn. Evil weed.

Yes it is definitely very persistent!!!

 

[Tesumph]

Is thiis poison ivy?
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Touch it and find out.