help ID these weeds...are any of them poison ivy/oak/sumac?
huango
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poison ivy!!!!
Comments (77)Two things, there is a product called Ivy armor at any drugstore, that you can apply to your skin it's whenever you were going to be rethink you're going to be around poison ivy. The telephone lines when they came to our house and had to get through some to get to the phone linesman told me about the product. I will get poison ivy bad enough to need a steroid shots and I swell up like a character in Farside cartoons. One thing I need to note everyone thinks poison ivy spread and no it is not. What happens is that upon doing the laundry you can expose yourself to the oil to have gotten on your clothes or perhaps you set on something and transfer the oil from your clothing to the object you sat up on or you may have transfer the oil up toward your face and long arms etc. taking your shirt off things of that nature. I always have my family their clothing inside out so that when I put it in the laundry I did not get the poison ivy oil from their clothing. The fact is that what you have when you think the poison ivy has spread is in fact a latent outbreak from having come in contact with the oil sometime after your initial contact. Also, it cannot be spread from one person to another from the liquid in any of the blisters. Old Wives Tales!...See MorePoison Ivy? Or Oak?
Comments (7)mwhcrew - Howdy neighbor! Yup. No worries. It's grape vine as jeanne said. I too am affected by poison ivy. Do yourself a favor and learn how to identify poison ivy as well as grapevine and virginia creeper which are our other two vines here. Learn how to even do winter ID's - these 3 vines are very different from each other in their "tendrils." I learned how to id them when I was a kid and it has helped me to avoid many a suffering itch! FataMorgana...See MorePoison Ivy? Or some type of ground cover?
Comments (11)Happy to! Hostas are tough, gardeners move them around regularly. I've not had Epimediums before, so somebody jump in if I say something that doesn't jive with those. A bit of reading about them says gardeners often divide them, so assuming they're like most perennials that gardeners move at will with good results. Does your yard have other 'flower bed' areas? If so, is the light exposure similar to this one? Is there space for plants to take up temporary residence there? If yes to the above questions, I would dig up as many of the Hostas and Epis as you feel like saving, move them to the other bed area. Shake off the roots when you get them up, to make sure you're only moving Hosta/Epi material, and not any of the goutweed roots. I would replant each one as it was dug, to reduce the time each one spends out of the ground (and working this way would allow you to take a break, for a minute or a night, or a week, whatever your schedule requires.) It would be best not to do this in the middle of a really hot day. Then rake the area where plants were removed as flat as possible, use weed trimmer to help get the weed foliage down/help flatten the area. Cover the shredded weeds and the ground with cardboard, overlapping the edges well, cover that with enough mulch to hide it. By spring, the bed should be ready for the good plants to be re-planted. After uncovering a small test area (if necessary, the cardboard may be decomposed by then,) where the goutweed was known to be thick to make sure it's dead, you can move the Hostas/Epis back, or start fresh with something else. If there is nowhere to move them, you could put the plants you want to save in pots for winter. Or possibly dig out half of the bed, move the good plants to that side and try smothering the other half. Furniture and appliance stores are great sources for soliciting large pieces of cardboard, just remove any tape or stapes before using them for gardening. Whatever is growing on a spot where I want to have a 'flower bed,' whether weeds or grasses, smothering is how I start all new beds. I'd rather wait than dig, and removing the top soil is counter-productive to having 'good dirt.' Smothering the weeds (and often grass) returns the organic material of the weeds/grass to the soil. I can elaborate more, if needed, in whichever direction you'd want/need to go....See Morepoison ivy/oak
Comments (16)I spent my childhood in Pa, and I was constantly exposed to poison ivy. I had a pony that would roll in the stuff, and I always rode bareback (wearing shorts in the summer), and would get rashes of the stuff all up and down the insides of my legs, and on my arms. As I grew older, I got less and less rashes, until I just stopped getting the rashes at all. Forward about 6 years...and I moved to GA. My husband, who gets rashes all over his body (and I do mean ALL OVER!) just by looking at our wooded back yard, and I decided to clear out the woods one late October. I figured that if he was real careful, and I did most of the pulling, we could clear it all out without a problem. WRONG! We both woke up the next morning with our eyes swollen shut, and rashes ALL OVER! Hubby opted to go to the doctor's and get put on steiroids. I decided to just "wait it out and deal with it." I think I healed faster than him. (I'm not a big fan of our doctor's "fixes everything steiroids." Anyways, ever since then, I have gotten bad cases of the rashes many times. -And some of the time, without even knowing that I'd been exposed. Not sure if it is poison ivy or poison oak that we're getting into...took a sample into the doctor's office one time in a baggy, and they couldn't identify it. Who knows. This summer, we finally knocked most of it out of the woods. I've been smothering it. I pour rock salt onto the plant, cover it with MANY layers of wet newspaper, and it seems to die off. Unfortunatly, it's root system is throughout our wooded area, so we get new sprouts here and there. But I just keep on trying to kill it off anyway. It will probably finally be killed off when we decide to move away....See Morehuango
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