goaliedad
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No idea where I heard this, but "leaves of three, leave it be"
anyone else ever hear this?
anyone else ever hear this?
Pulling vines out of trees
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I have no idea where it originated, but I too have heard that "leaves of three, leave it be."
Mike52
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I have 4 acres of trees. Many covered by a thick combination of multiflora and poison ivy. I remember standing under a good sized 'tree' about 20' tall, with a very uniformly shaped canopy, and strange glossy leaves the size of my palm. a poison ivy vine had wound its way around the original tree, killed it, and took it over so well that it looked like a specimen tree all by itself.
Poison ivy is notoriously tough to kill and get rid of. You can't burn it. Cutting it down usually commits you to a week or two of itchy misery (and NEVER use a chainsaw on it...the chips can be murder). Cutting it without killing the roots just causes it to spread. Cutting it and burying it does the same. Never use a woodchipper (see 'chainsaw', above). I say this from experience.
There are two methods that work:
1) get a goat (great for the smaller stuff),
2) "Disconnect" the main vines from the roots. Carefully remove a 2" or so section (so it doesn't heal and grow back). Paint the lower cut with the nastiest brush killer you can find, Wait a year or two for the top to dry out, get brittle and fall off. Best to do this in the fall when the plant is sending nutrients down to the roots.
Multiflora?...toothbar... curled down...back the tractor up,...rake it into a pile...add kerosene and a match.
Poison ivy is notoriously tough to kill and get rid of. You can't burn it. Cutting it down usually commits you to a week or two of itchy misery (and NEVER use a chainsaw on it...the chips can be murder). Cutting it without killing the roots just causes it to spread. Cutting it and burying it does the same. Never use a woodchipper (see 'chainsaw', above). I say this from experience.
There are two methods that work:
1) get a goat (great for the smaller stuff),
2) "Disconnect" the main vines from the roots. Carefully remove a 2" or so section (so it doesn't heal and grow back). Paint the lower cut with the nastiest brush killer you can find, Wait a year or two for the top to dry out, get brittle and fall off. Best to do this in the fall when the plant is sending nutrients down to the roots.
Multiflora?...toothbar... curled down...back the tractor up,...rake it into a pile...add kerosene and a match.
daTeacha
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Regarding poison ivy -- The stuff will burn, but you really don't want to do that. When I was a kid a neighbor woman always was pretty smug about not catching the stuff (I'm not real sensitive to it either for that matter) and tore it out with her hands. One time, she decided to burn a pile of the stuff and made the mistake of getting caught in the smoke. She ended up with a systemic outbreak of the rash and almost died. It was in her lungs, mouth, nasal passages, eyes, sinuses, you name it. So yes, it will burn, but DO NOT BURN POISON IVY!!!
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Many years ago they used to put diesel in a sprayer and spray the forest floor to kill young poison ivy. I've heard it worked well. I think if I had a problem, I might try that as a localized solution. The diesel couldn't be worse than some of the insecticides and herbicides they spray now. At least diesel will decompose. /forums/images/graemlins/smirk.gif