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Get Rid of Posion Vines Around your Home

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Before heading for the over-grown patch with the shears, try this plan for dealing with poison ivy, oak, and sumac.

Kill: Herbicides are the best weapon for killing off most poison vines. Cut vines to six inches above the ground level. Soak cotton in herbicide and stuff into a little plastic cup (small yogurt containers work best). Seal the cup and cotton upside down on an exposed vine with duct tape or floral wire.

Outsmart: The skin lotion Ivy Block ($15) protects against urushiol, the itch-producing resin; Büji Block ($15) claims to do the same and has SPF 24. Calamine Lotion can be used on parts of the skin that have come into contact with the ivy or the vine oils.

Intercept: Already exposed? Drop your tools and wash the urushiol off with soap and water, or try Technu Extreme ($15) or, if you’re not near a sink. Cortaid Poison Ivy Care Toxin Removal Cloths (six for $10). Wash your clothes immediately after contact, so you don’t track the oils all through your home.

Treat: Hydrocortisone reduce itching. For more OTC relief, buy products with pramoxine, menthol or calamine, as stated above. Calamine is safe for the facial area as well.
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Gardeners and even nurseries’ tend to use a lot of plastic pots. To keep them out of the landfill, check with your local nursery to see if it accepts it’s won nursery pots back. Or participate in a pot recycling program like the one at Missouri Botanic Garden. Each year residents of the St. Louis area bring their pots to the botanic garden, where they are collected to be recycled into landscape timbers. If there’s not a program in your area, urge local garden centers to start one. To see how the program works, go to
Mo bot/Plastic Pots.


Posted in Oak and Sumac, Poison Ivy on November 24th, 2008

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