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How To Kill Poison Ivy
By Leeanne Utiger
If you are reading this, then maybe you have a problem with poison ivy, and need to learn how to get rid of and kill poison ivy. Well, read further and I will give you a few brief details on just how you CAN kill poison ivy.
What you will have to learn and understand first, about how to kill poison ivy, is that it may take a very long time to finally kill and be rid of poison ivy for good. You will also on reading more on how to kill poison ivy, realise that you have to attack the roots of the poison ivy, or you will not manage to kill it successfully.
You will have to make sure you have appropriate gloves to protect your hands and arms, so make sure the gloves you get are in fact long. You will also need to make sure you are wearing a long sleeved shirt and long trousers. Once again, this is to protect yourself against the poison ivy. Now that you have learnt how to help protect yourself when you are considering killing poison ivy, you are ready to begin your mission. You can now begin to dig the poison ivy out of the ground, remembering that the roots of a poison ivy plant will in fact be buried very deep. So this may take a lot of hard work. It is suggested that you have some extra hands to help you when you get to work on killing poison ivy.
When you do some research on how to kill poison ivy, you will come across some suggestive tips to help make killing poison ivy just a little more easier. It is suggested that you dig a trench around the roots of the poison ivy that you are going to try to kill, and then pour boiling hot water around the roots of the poison ivy. It is also to suggested to pour some salt in the middle of the poison ivy plant.
On learning more about how to kill poison ivy, you will also discover techniques to prevent more poison ivy from coming up into your garden. You can lay down some mulch, leaves and bark around the plant and then cover with a piece of black plastic. This will prevent any sunlight from shining onto the roots and the plant, so will therefore prevent any new shoots from forming and coming up through the ground. It is suggested to leave this like this for about two years. In this time, you should find that the rootstock of the poison ivy, that you wanted to learn how to kill have in fact died off.
Knowing how to kill poison ivy is obviously going to make for a better and controlled garden, and there is also another way to kill poison ivy, but you have to take great care using this method also.
You can apply a herbicide/weed killer to the poison ivy plant. Simply use an old paint brush and paint the spring and summer growth of the poison ivy with the herbicide/weed killer. You can also if you choose to, cut back the foliage and the major of the poison ivy plant until you are just left with the poison ivy stump. You can also paint the poison ivy stump with the herbicide/weed killer. This will also prevent growth of further poison ivy. This may have to be repeated a few times until you successfully kill the poison ivy off.
You will in addition learn about how to dispose of poison ivy when you are learning how to kill poison ivy. Once you have removed the foliage, and used the methods to try to kill the poison ivy, you will need to get rid of the excess poison ivy you are removing. Bag this up tightly and dispose of appropriately. Do NOT burn this poison ivy, as the toxins the poison ivy contains will float and spread, because we all know that smoke travels in the air.
And last but not least, remember to take a hot soapy bath after being around poison ivy, especially when you are working very closely with poison ivy through trying to kill it. And in addition, make sure you wash/launder all of your clothing you were wearing when taking measures to kill your poison ivy separately.
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